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About Google Book Search Google's mission is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful. Google Book Search helps readers discover the world's books while helping authors and publishers reach new audiences. You can search through the full text of this book on the web at |http: //books .google .com/I i^^ y e£*f. ^./^. TCETtl&icntT. THE HISTORY TOWN AND PARISH OF TETBURY, ttt tilt Coantj; of AIonnsUT, OOHnLED FBOH OBIOIHAb KS& AMD tymSK AirnllNTIC S01IKCI& EEV. ALFRED T. LEE, M.A. LONDON : JOHN HENBT i JAMES PARKER, 377, SPTRAND. nLOtED BT W. TOUJJOt, JKOtOB MESn. ffl pbirt Staptr |0Uflrt, OF WESTON BIRT, M. P. FOR THE EASTERN DIVISION OF THE COUNTY OF GLOUCESTER, LORD OF THE MANORS OF UPTON & CHARLTON. IN THE PARISH OF TETBURY, IS BT HIS PERMISSION INSCRIBED, WITH EVERT TOKEN OF RESPECT, BT HIS VEST OBEDIENT SERVANT, (Efie 9utf)ot. TABLE OF CONTENTS. Preface List of Subscribers T. xi. CHAPTER I. Tke HtsUny of the Town. Tetborjr in the time of the Britains and Romans .1 Castle there in British times . • .3 Roman Coins found there • ^ Saxon Monastery, circa A.D. 680 . • .6 Tetbnry, in ** Domesday ** . . i » 7 Siege of Tetbary Castle by King Stephen .IS Cistercian Monastery, A J>. 1170 . • .16 Chantry founded in Tetbnry Church by Walter de Waltres, A.D. 1363 18 Charles L visits Tetbnry . . . « 19 Tetbury in the Civil Wars . • 80 Charles II. and James IL visit the Town . .21 Rules and Bye-laws for prevention of the plague, 1666 .21 Severe visitation of Small-pox . .25 Account of old Henry West, of Upton .26 Old Ambrose Ind .28 Remarkable events . • .29 Tetbnry Church struck by lightning, A.D. 1789 .30 Colours presented to the Tetbury Volunteers at Kingscote 32 Government of the Town ... .32 Fairs, &c .34 Description of the Town .35 Ruins of Cistercian Monastery . .37 Projected Railway in 1839 .39 Springs near the Town . .39 Alms House. .42 Savings Bank .44 Dispensary . .46 VI. Tetbory Institate .... Tetbary Union .... Population of the parish, 1801—1851 Proportion of arable to posture land in the parish Hamlet of Doughton .... Elmestree ..... Upton ..... Charlton ..... Inrestigation into the origin of the name of the Town 4t 51 52 53 53 54 54 55 55 CHAPTER n. Account of the Lards of the Manor. Former and present jurisdiction of Lords of the ld[anor Siward, Lord of Tetbuiy, temp. Edward the Confessor Roger de Ireri, timp, William the Confessor Reginald de S. Walerick The fiunily of De Braose The Berkeley family . The Manor of Doughton The Kanor of Upton The Manor of Charlton The Manor of ElmestiM The Orange . 58 59 59 60 61 71 75 78 81 85 86 CHAPTER m. Histofy of ths Monastery and Churches, Ancient Saxon Monastory (^tercian Monastery Old Parish Church of S. Mary Magdalen Charities attached to the old Church . Deed of Arbitration, 1467 Account of rebuilding of Parish Church Rules of Society for rebuilding the Parish Church The present Parish Church 8. SaTiour's Chapel of Ease . The Rectory and Adrowson, account of Particulars respecting the Rev. John Wight . Extracts fh>m the Parish JEtegisters, ftc Churchwardens' aecqpats Monuments in the old Church 87 88 94 96 99 lOS 105 108 118 119 122 127 132 146 vu. CHAPTER IV. Th« Tetbufy Charities. Chftneerj Scheme for regaUtion of Tetbuiy Charity Bvtatas Sir William Bomney's Charity, 1610 Sir Thomas Estcoart's Charity, 1642 John Yeizey's Charity, 1677. William Talboys* Charity, 1680 Richard Talboys' Charity, 1682 Charles Elton's Charity, 1696 Jonathan Shipton's Charity, 1710 John Avery's Charity, 1713 • Elizabeth Hodges* Charity, 1723 Thomas Talboys' Charity, 1781 Gilbert Gastrell's Charity* 1792 Uop^Eak ¥«ldn*« Charity, 1789 Matthew Sloper's Charity, 1770 John Wight's Charity, 1774. Esther Clark's Charity, 1774 Mary Howe's Charity, 1775 . Ann Wight's Charity, 1788 . Sarah Paul's Charity, 1795 . Ann QaatTell's Charity, 1797 Eleanor Lndlow's Charity, 1804 Thomas Alexander's Charity, 1 805 James Webber's Charity, 1813 James Pickett's Charity, 1813 Sarah Lndlow's Charity, 1816 William Brookes's Charity, 1821 Idary Sammers's Charity, 1826 « Lieutenant-Colonel Olney's Charity, 1836 Thomas Ponlton's Charity, 1851 Tabular account of the Charities Tetbnry Charity Estates account, 1855-56 156 159 160 161 162 162 168 163 164 16S 166 167 167 167 168 168 169 169 170 170 170 171 172 172 173 173 173 174 174 175 176 CHAPTER V. The Schools. Sir William Romney's benefaction . Hub. Hodges* benefaction .... Ordinances of Tetbory School, 1623. Present state of the Schools .... Lives of celebrated persons connected with the Town John Oldham, the poet .... 177 178 179 183 184 184 ▼Ul. Philip Biflse, Bishop of Hereford Thomas Tnllj, D.I)^ Deen of Bipon Thomas Gore» the antiquary Joseph Trappy Frolessor of Poetiy, Oxford Scrope Berdmore BaTies U7 IM 189 190 191 CHAFTBB VL HiaUiry of FamiUes comMcUd uwlA Tetbwry. Estcourt of Estooort .196 Hontlejr of Bozwell Court . .208 Holford of Weston Birt .218 Paol of HighgroTe . .222 Sarage of Tetboiy . .228 Extracts from Parish Begisters respecting family of Sayage . . 287 n ft M Oastrell family . 24.^ n n H Talboys family . 244 Extracts from Shipton Moyne Begisters respecting the Estcoart family 246 Extracts from Long Newnton Begisters respecting the Estcoart family 248 Pedigree connecting families of De Braose afad Cotes . 249 CHAPTEB VIL Notes on the Geology of Tetbory . 251 APPENDIX 1 Chronological events connected with the Town 261 Charter of King Ethelred to Malmesbmy Abbey 264 Charter of Beginald de S. Walerick to Eynesham Abbey . 265 Grant of Bernard de S. Walerick to Boger de Berkeley 266 Charter of Thomas de S. Walerick to Eynesham Abbey 267 Carte R de Berkeley .268 Grant of William de Brense to the Free Burgesses of Tetbory, 1291 . 268 Begrant of Beginald de Brahns ..... 269 Begrant of John de Bransa ...... 269 Charter of Edward lY. of Elmestree, to Westbnry College . . 270 Extracts from Pnblic Bolls relating to Tetbury . .271 Tokens issued at Tetbury, 1650—1670 .273 for repain of Tetbuiy Church .... 273 IX. Eztncts from the Will of Sir William Bomnej lists of Acts of FftrUament connected with the Town Bishops of Qloncester firom 1541 . 279 285 287 APPENDIX II. LifitofYicars from 1551 .... . 289 List of Lecturers ..... . 290 List of Curates . , . . . . 201 List of Churchwardens from 1569 . . 292 List of FooSooB fit>m 1682 .... . 298 List of Bailifis from 1592 .... . 299 List of Schoolmasten from 1642 . 301 APPENDIX m. Inseriptioiis on the existing Monuments in the Parish Church 302 APPENDIX IV. Heads of Local Inlbrmation 311 INDEX. Index to Names on Monuments Index 313 314 X. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. The former dnnvli «f S. Ubtj Magdalen . Frontispiece The Arms of Tetbuiy ..... Title Page Arms of Holford ..... Dedication Facsimile of order of Charles L to spare Tetburj dtirnig Aa Gml Inr ars ...... 19 The Old Market House, Tetbnry .... 35 Upton Grove, near Tetbury . . . , 54 Arms of De Braoee ..... 62 Arms of the Berkeleys ..... 71 Elmestree House, near Tctbnry .... 86 Remains of Cistercian Monastery .... 94 Autographs of Vicars of Totbnry since 1 657 122 West Window, Parish Church, and Gastrell Monument . 146 Arms of Estcourt .... . 196 Estconrt House, near Tetbury . 196 Seal of William Estcourt .... . 197 Arms of Huntley ..... . 208 Arms of Holford ..... . 218 Weston Birt, near Tetbury . . 218 Arms of Paul ..... . 226 Arms of Sayage ..... . 228 Autographs of some of the Estcourts, and Lord and Lady Berkeley, 1 632 24 1 PREFACE. The object of the Author in compiling the following pages has been to preserve, if possible from oblivion, such particulars respecting the Town and Parish of Tetbury as would otherwise, in all probability, have been lost. He has endeavoured especially to record those which are likely to be interesting to the historian and the antiquary ; having been long convinced that local histories are of great importance, if compiled with fidehty and care. From works of like character with the pre- sent, the future historians of England will be able to gather facts and customs which otherwise would, in the lapse of time, be for ever lost ; and to his- tories such as these they must look for the record of the common events of the every-day domestic life of the English nation, which in larger works are lumoticed and uncared for. In the present history then, the Author has simply endeavoured to do the work of a compiler with xu. 88 much faithfulness and diligence as lay in his power. When he commenced collecting materials for it, he found but few ready to hand. The notices of Tetbury, given in the various histories of Gloucestershire, are, from the natinre of those works, short and formal, and are not always trust- worthy. His chief sources of information have been numerous manuscripts intrusted to him by their owners, and papers relating to various Chancery suits, which at different periods have been carried on respecting the affairs of the Town. These documents, as well as those of interest in the Town Chest, together with the Parochial Blisters, and Churchwardens' and Feoffees' ac- counts, have been examined with much care, and every information calculated to throw light on the past history of the Town has been extracted from them. The copies of aU the monumental inscriptions at present existing in the Parish Church, given in Appendix III., as well as the extracts from the Parish Register at the end of Chapter VI. will, it is hoped, be found valuable hereafter in tracing pedigi^ which otherwise might become obscure. It only remains for the Author to thank those • •• ZUl. kind friends who have assisted him in obtaimng materials for his work. The owners of Estcourt, Weston Birt, Upton Grove, and Ehnestree, have presented him with the views of their respective reddenoes. which appear in the Mowing pages. From the late lamented Rev. R W. Huntley» of Boxwell Court, he has received much antiquarian, geneaJogical and heraldic infonnation. From Messrs. J. T. and R. C. Paul, much documentary evidence and constant assistance throiighout the progress of the work. From Professor Buckman, of the Boyal Agricultural College, Cirencester, a val- uable Essay on the Geology of Tetbuiy. From Bichard Filkin, Esq., M.D., of Bichmond, many useful references to works respecting Tetbuiy and its History; and from that valuable publication. Notes and Queries, (to which all Antiquaries are so constantly indebted,) he has obtained the elucidation of many obscure historical point& The materials thus obtained have been arranged in the following order : In Chaptbb I., the History of the Town is traoed from ite earUeet appeatunce in British History, to the present day; the most remark- able circumstances that have occurred in conneo- XIV. tion with it are mentioned, and a description is given of the present state of its Govemment, Institutions, Public Buildings, &c. Chapter II. contains a consecutive account of the Lords of the Manor of Tetbury, and its Ham- lets, from the time of Edward the Confessor to the present day. Chaptbb III. is occupied with a description of the ancient Cistercian Monastery, and of the former and present Churches existing in the Parish. In Chapter IV., a full account is given of the number and value of the different Charities of the Town, by means of abstracts of the wiUs of the various bene&ctors. A tabular accoimt of their present state is appended. Chapter V. describes the past and present conditions of the Schools, giving also short lives of celebrated persons educated in them, or other- wise connected with the Town. Chapter VI. contains the Pedigrees of those families who are, or have been, prominently con- nected with Tetbury. The Author is greatly indebted to the members of these fiemiilies, who have supplied him with authentic materials for compiling them. XV. Chapter VII. contains Notes ou the Geology of Tetbury, by Professor Buckman. The Charters of the De Braose s in Appendix I. are from an old English copy, preserved in the Town Chest. The originals, in Latin, are in many parts illegible. The lists of Vicars, Feoffees, Churchwardens, &c., in Appendix II., have been now for the first time compiled at a great expense of time and labour ; they will be found correct, as fiir as they go. Appendix III. contains Copies of the Inscrip- tions on all the Monuments in the Parish Church. In Appendix IV. the Heads of Local Informa- will be found. FuUy conscious of the numerous defects which will be found in the foDowing pages, the Author nevertheless commits them with confi- dence to the candour and kindness of his readers, believing that they will estimate their value, not by their intrinsic worth, but by the interest which they take in all that concerns the welfare and prosperity of the Town and Parish of Tetbury, the History of which it is the object of the follow- ing pages to describe. Ma^ 21, U57. LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS. 4 Her Grace the Duchess of Beaufort, Badminton, (2 copies ) The Lord Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol. The Earl Fitzhardinge, Lord lieutenant of Gloucestershire. The Earl of Dude, Tortworth Park (2 copies.) The Earl of Ellenborough, Southam Park, Cheltenham. Sir William Codrington, M.P. Dodington. Sir Thomas Phillips, Bart Middle Hill, Worcester. Sir B. W. Garden, Bart. M.P. 64, Wimpole Street, London. T. H. Sotheron Estcourt, Esq. M.P. Estcourt, Tetbuiy, (10 copies.) B. S. Holford, Esq. M.P. Dorchester House, Park Lane, (6 copies.) John Neeld, Esq. M.P. Grittleton. Greorge Poulett Scrope, Esq. M.P. Castle Combe. J. Bolt, Esq. M.P. Ozleworth Park, Gloucestershire. J. B. Mullings, Esq. M.P. Eastcourt House, Malmesbury. Bannister, Bichard, Mr. White Hart, Tetburj. Barrett, Thomas, Mr. Tetbury. Battersbj, J. C. Ber. Vicarage, Tollesbury, Maldon, Essex. Baylj, Charles, Esq. Garston House, Torquay. Bennett, Bichard, Esq. Culkerton, Tetbury. Besant, W. H. Esq. M.A. F.B.A.S. Fellow of S. John's College, Cambridge. Birch, W. S. Bev. Bectofy, Easton Grey, Malmesbury. • •• XV1U. Bowsher, Alfred, Mr. Tetbury. Box, James, Mr. Tetbniy. Bradflhawe, Henry, Esq. M.A. Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. Brookes, William, Esq. Elmesiree, Tetbuiy, (2 copies.) • Brookes, William, Mr. Mark Lane, London. Brown, Charles, Mr. Tetbury. Brown, Francis, Mr. Tetbury. Brown, William, Mr. Malmesbury. Bryan, Guy, Bey. sen. Woodham Walter Rectory, Essex. Bryan, Guy, Bev. jun. Swanton Novers, Norfolk. Byam, Samuel, Esq. Willesley, Tetbury, (2 copies.) Butler, John, Mr. Tetbury. Cartmell, James, Rev. D.D. Master of Christ's College, Cambridge. Cave, George, Mr. The CoUey, Tetbury. Chew, Edward, Mr. Tetbury. Cook, John, Esq. sen. Tetbury. Cook, John, Mr. jun. Birkenhead. Cook, Edwin, Mr. Tetbury. Cook, Charles, Mr. Birkenhead. Cook, George, Mr. Northwich Cook, William, Mr. Cooper, John, Mr. Tetbuiy. ComwaU, A. G. Rev. Ashcroft House, Wotton-under-Edge. Cotes, C. G. Rev. Rectoty, Stanton S. Quinton, Wilts. Crow, Cyrus, Mr. Tetbury. Croome, T. C. Esq. Cainscross, Tetbury. Dalton, Edward, Esq. D.C.L. F.S.A. Dunkirk House, Nails- worth. Dalway, Marriott, Esq. M.A. Bella HiU, Carrickfergus, Ireland. Dalway, Marriott Robert, Esq. „ „ Dixon, Greorge, Mr. Tetbury. xiz. Djer, Robert, Rev. Doughton. Ellison, Nathaniel, Esq. M.A. Morton House, Durham. Estcourt, William J. B. Rev. M.A. Rectory, Long Newnton, Wilts. Estcourt, Matthew, Rev. M.A. Long Newnton, Wilts. Jlstcourt, Edward D. B. Esq., M.A. Charlton, Tetbuiy. Everard, E. J. Rev. Rectory, Didmarton, (5 copies.) Eykjn, Mrs. Reading. Fewster, Anthony, Esq. Nailsworth, Stroud. Filkin, Richard, Esq. M.D. Richmond, (6 copies.) Foster, George Pitt, Mr. Tetbury. Fowler, Robert, Rev. M.A. Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge. Fowles, Charles, Mr. Tetbury. Frampton, John, Rev. Vicar of Tetbury, (2 copies.) Frampton, Edward, Esq. Cheltenham. Eraser, William, B.C.L. Rev. Alton, Cheadle, Stafford. Gibson, William Sidney, Esq. F.S.A. Bankruptcy Court, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Goodwyn, J. G. Mr. Tetbury, (10 copies.) Greenstreet, F. W. Rev. M.A. Frenchay, Bristol. Gunson, W. M. Rev. M.A. Fellow and Tutor of Christ's College, Cambridge. Hale, R. B. Esq. Alderton, Gloucestershire. Harding, Colonel, Mount Radford Terrace, Exeter. Haygarth, J. S. Rev. M.A. Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester. Hays, John, Rev. M.A. Fellow and Tutor of Christ's College, Cambridge. HoUiday, William, I^Ir. Tetbuiy. Holt, Thomas, Esq. Gloucester. Home, Francis, Mr. Tetbury. Hooper, Briscoe, Esq. Torwood Mount, Torquay. Hughes, Joseph, Mr. Tetbury. Huntley, Bichard Webster, Rev. (the late,) Boxwell Court, Tetbury, (5 copies.) Ind, George, Mr. Tetbury. Jones, Miss, Chapel Street, Belgrave Square, London. Jones, W. S. Esq. Malmesbury. KeiUer, J. W. Mr, Tetbury. Korslake, Thomas, Mr. Bristol. Kitcat, John, Bev. M. 4. Swallowfield, Beading. Ejtcat, David, Bev. M.A. Lee, Lady, Claremont, Torquay. Lee, J. H. Captain, Balsdon Lodge, Torquay. Lee, Melville L. Bev. Bectory, Bridport, Dorset. Lewis, T. Mr. Tetbury. Lingwood, Thomas, Bev. Maggs, Joseph, Mr. Tetbuiy. Main, Professor, Bev. M.A. F.B.A.S. B.N. College, Ports- mouth. Maskelyne, Maurice, Esq. Maskelyne, William, Esq. Captain 20th Foot. Milner, C. F. Bev. Shadwell, near Leeds. Napier, Edward Berkeley, Esq. Pennard House, Somerset. Parker, J. H. and J. Messrs. London and Oxford. Paul, J. T. Esq. Tetbury, (4 copies.) Paul, B. C. Esq. Tetbury, (4 copies.) Paul, Henry, Esq. Clifton. XXI. Paul, Frederick, Esq. Paul, B. C. Esq. (the late,) Tetbury. Paul, Edmund W. Esq. Exeter. Paul, Walter M. Esq. Highgrove. Price, Thomas, Mr. Tetbury. Pricbard, B. A. Rev. Ashley Rectory, Tetbury. Relton, H. E. Esq. Lewes, Sussex. Bich, E. W. Esq. Didmarton, Tetbury. Bicketts, William, Esq. Tetbury. Boyds, Adelaide, Miss, Upton House, Tetbury. Saunders, T. Albin, Esq. Tetbury. Sarage, John, Esq. Grosvenor House, Bath. Savage, Francis Walker, Esq. Springfield, Westbury-on-Trym, (3 copies.) Savage, Francis, Esq. Savage, Mss, Cheltenham. Sealy, George, Mr. Tetbury. Sealy, William, Mr. Tetbury. Slatter, W. Mrs. Stratton, near Cirencester. Smith, Daniel, Mr. Tetbury. Stanton, Charles, Esq. Bownham, Stroud. Stanton, Charles H. Esq. Lincoln's Inn, London. Stanton, Arthur H. Esq. Tanner, Thomas, Mr. Shipton Moyne, Tetbury. Tanner, A. H. Mr. Shipton Moyne, Tetbury. Tayler, William, Mr. The Folly, Tetbuiy. Tayler, Bichard, Mr. Ashley, near Tetbury. Thomas, George, Mr. Lasborough. Timmings, John, Esq. Southsea. Townshend, Lady James, Baynham Hall, Norfolk. Tugwell, Humphrey, Mr. Tetbury. XXll. Walker, C. Esq. Gloucester. Walker, Henry, Rev. Incumbent of S. Andrew's, Westminster. Walker, John, Mr. Tetbury. Wallis, Rear-Admiral P.W.P. Commander-in-Chief, South America. Ward, John, Rev. M.A. Wath Rectoiy, Ripon. Warn, William, Mr. Tetbury. Warner, William, Mr. Lowfield, Tetbury. Wayte, William, Rev. M.A. Fellow of King's College, Cam- bridge. Weare, George, Mr. Tetbury. Webb, James, Mr. Tetbury. Whishaw, James, Esq. 68, Gower Street, London. Wickham, J. C. Esq. M.D. Tetbury, (2 copies.) Wight, Robert, Mr. Painswick, (2 copies.) Williams, George, Rev. B.D. Yice-Provost of King's College, Cambridge. Wilkinson, Mrs. Bath. Wills, G. W. B. Rev. M.A. Rectory, S. Leonard's, Exeter. Wills, Emily, Miss, Richmond Place, Mount Radford, Exeter. Wiltshire, John, Esq. Shockerwish, Bath. Witchell, Henry, Mr. Tetbury. Wood, Joseph, Esq. The Close, Tetbury, (4 copies.) Wood, Jacob, Mrs. The Green, Tetbury. Wood, Benjamin, Esq. Newnton House, Long Newnton, Tet- bury. Wood, Charles P. Esq. 43, Bernard Street, Russell Square, London, (2 copies.) Wood, Jacob, Rev. Stratton, near Cirencester. Wood, Henry, Esq. Barton End, near Tetbury. THE HISTORY OF THE TOWN AND PARISH OF TETBURY. CHAPTER L The History of the Town. Early History In the times of the Britains — Romans — Saxons— Danes. — Account of Manor in Domesday. — Civil Wars, temp, K Stephen. — Royal Visits.— Ciyil Wars, temp, K. Charles.— Bye Laws for Prevention of the Plagne in 1666.— Old Age of Inhabitants. — Remarkable Events. Government of the Town. — Situation. — Town Hall.— The Chipping.— Cistercian Monastery, — Alms Houses. — Savings Bank. — Dispensary, — Institute. — Population. — Hamlets, — Doughton, — Elmestree, — Upton, — Charlton. — Investigation into the Origin of its Name. There can be but Kttle doubt that Tetbury was a military station, both in the time of the Britons and Romans, The towns of the original inhabi- tants of Britain were mostly situated on steep hills, and deep ditches, and high ramparts, were added to these natiuul defences, by way of increasing their strength ; and the position assigned to Tetbury by natxure, admirably fits it for purposes of defence. Pleasantly situated, on the South Eastern extremity of the Cotswold hills, in a healthy and salubrious air, and commanding an extensive tract of surroiuiding country,* it was sure to be seized upon by a warlike ' The town is thus described by Leland, Itinerary^ vol. ii., p. 24. — ** Tetbyri is vii. miles from Malmesbjri, and is a praty market Town. Tetbyri liyth a 2 miles on the lift hand of from Fosse, afl men ryde to Sodbyri. The Hed of Isis ia Cotteswolde riseth about a mile a this side Tetbyri." B people, as a spot capable of being easily fortified, and as easily defended. In the account which the earhest historians of Britain give of this part of the countiy, Tetbury is but rarely mentioned by name. The splendour of its near neighbour, Cirencester (which town was the metropolis of the Dobimi, the ancient inhabitants of Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire before the in- vasion of the Romans) entirely eclipsed its fame, and in giving an account of its history during this early period, we must content ourselves with de- scribing, the everchanging fortunes of the inhabi- tants of the district, comprehended between Ciren- cester, Gloucester, and Bath, in which tract of country, Tetbury is necessarily included. Aulus Plautius, was sent by Claudius as propraetor into Britain, and A.r). 45 placed garrisons amongst the Dobimi, as Dio relates. This country firom Ciren- cester (called by the Britains Caer Cori, and by the Romans Durocomovium) to Painswick, Bisley, Sapperton, Woodchester, Uley, and the adjoining places, (probably including Tetbury) was much peopled by the Romans. Cirencester was the metropolis, and Gloucester and the hills about the Severn were the great military posts. Camden* in his description of Malmesbury, makes mention of an ancient castle existing at Tetbury in British times. We will give the extract in fiilL " A very proper town this is {i. e. Malmesbury), 'Camden's BritanmcOf ed. 1610, p. 242. 3 and hath a great name for clothing, which (as we read in the Eulogie of Histories) Cimwallow Mal- mutius, King of the Britains, built together with Lacock and Tetburte two castles, and called it Gaer Baldon, which being at length by heat of wars destroyed, out of the ruins thereof there arose, as writers record, a castle wHch our ancestors in then: tongue, called Ingelbom," At the same time, con- tinues Camden, " the Saxon petty Kings had their palace at Caerdiurburge now Brokenbridge, a village scarce a mile from hence," If a castle was built at Tetbury, in the time of the Britons, as thus related by Camden, it would at once be seized by the Bomans on their occupation of the country, and made by them a militaiy station ; and we haTe proofs of tWs having beenle case, for aB is justly observed by Bishop Kennet,* " an obvious proof of places being frequented by the Eomans is L diggbg up. of Jin, iindi. n.^ «^ other relics of that age and nation, for wherever they spread themselves they either by accident or design left their marks behind them, so that if none of their antiquities can be found it is a just argu- ment that they have never visited it."* * Parochial AntiquitieBf vol. i., p. 14. * This is confirmed by the account given in the Anglo Saxon Ckromde^ a.d. 418. This year the Romans collected all the treasures that were in Britain, and some they hid in the earth, so that no one has since been able to find them, and some they carried with them to Gaul. The converse of this argument is applicable to Tetbury, since many Boman coins have at different times been found there, and the remains of a Roman camp existed there till the middle of the last century, when it was levelled to make room for improve- ments.' Coins of the Emperors Claudius, and Phihp, are at the present time, (1857) in the possession of Mr. George Cole, an old inhabitant of the town, and were dug up in his garden ; and the late Rev. John Wight, vicar of this parish, had in his cabinet coins of the Emperors Hadrian, Antoninus Pius, and Constantino and his sons, all of whom at one period visited Britain ; as also of Postumius Mag- nentius, and a very fine one of Carausius in brass, all foimd hera A coin of Annia Faustina, wife of Marcus Aurelius,® (who died a.d. 1 75,) has like- wise been discovered here ; and tmder the agger several ancient English coins, buried doubtless at a later period, particularly one of Edward the Con- fessor, one of King Stephen, and two of Henry III. When the camp was levelled (as mentioned above) about a centiuy since, several heads of arrows and javelins, with horse shoes of the ancient form, and * The ruins and intrenchments were visible within these twenty-six years, ue. in 1757. — MS. Account of Tidmry, by R. C. [Robert Clark] written in 1783. ^ She was the daughter of Antoninus Pius. Her character, which was not one of the best, is given by Gibbon, vol, i., p. 226, Dr. Smith's Ed. See also his Oreds cmd Boman Mythology, vol. ii.| p. 141. spurs without rowels (such as were in use soon after the Conquest) were discovered. It would be extremely interesting to us, had we any existing account of the marches of Vespasian, during the time that Aldus Plautius, was governor of Britain ; as it is, we only know that the third year after his arrival in Britain, Plautius took pos- session of Bath and Gloucester.' In all probability Vespasian was the general, who conquered and co- lonized, the banks of the Bristol Avon. During the time that Plautius was Governor of Britain; the Romans reduced all the tribes south of the Thames, together with the Tribonantes, Dohuni^ and Cossi. When Publius Ostorius Scapula arrived in Britain as governor, A.D. 50, he found that many of the Bri- tish tribes had revolted from Rome. Among other precautions, he fortified the Banks of the Severn, to prevent the SLliures, (the ancient inhabitants of Herefordshire and Monmouthshire) from invading the Roman province, and placed garrisons at Glou- cester, Sodbury, Oldbury, &c. Bath, which was originally a British town, was one of the nine Roman colonies in BritaiQ, and had been previously occupied and fortified by them. From the time of the departure of the Romans, in the middle of the fifth century, to the estab- lishment of the Saxon Heptarchy, tliis part of the country was included in the Kingdom of Wiccia. It was afterwards incorporated with the ^ Richard of Cirencester, 1, 6, 28. Kingdom of Mercia, and between 577 and 656 was held alternately by the Mercians and West Saxons. In aa ancient charter of Ethelred. King of the MerdanSy to Aldhelm, the Abbot of MaLmesbury, in 680, recorded by Dugdale,* mention is made of the gift by that king of fifteen cassates of land, "jitwrfa Tettan Moruxsteriv/m^ (near the Monastery of Tettan) to the monks of Malmesbury. This mo- nastery disappeared before the Conquest, and no record of its existence, except this casual mention of it, now remains. In the reign of the above-mentioned King Ethel- red, Osher, sub regulus of the Wiccii, persuaded him to divide Merda, which had hitherto been under one Bishop, into five dioceses, an example which might with great advantage be followed in our own times. The principal see then erected was that of his own province, Wiccia. The pontifical seat was erected at Worcester, the then famous metropolis of the WicciL* * Moncutieon Angl.^ vol. L, p. 258, ed. 1819. See also Tanner's NoHtia Monastica, pp. 139, 148. 9 Anno 680, tempore ^thelredi Regis Merciorum, et Theo- dori Arcbiepiscopi, constituta est sedes, Episcopalis Wigomensis EcclesisB. Boselas Episcopns primus et yixit annis xi., obiit 689. ^^Annales de Eebua Ecclei, Wigom. The Diocese of Lichfield formerly comprehended all Merda. In the year 679, on the authority of Ethelred and Archbishop Theodore, it was divided into five Dioceses ; one of them was Worcester, which comprehended Worcestershire, Gloucester- shire, and half of Warwickshire. The seat of the bishop was Tetbury remained in the Diocese of Worcester, tiU the erection of the See of Gloucester, by Hemy VIII, in 1541. The Danes made their first hostile invasion of Eng- land in 783. In the reign of King Edgar (959-974) they h^ so overspread the land that " there was scarcely a village in England where the Danes did not dwell with the English."* It is said, that they were much favoured by the English women, from their being of cleaner habits than their own country- men. In A.D. 1013, the Danish king, Sweyn, having been repulsed by the inhabitants of London, marched to Wallingford, and thence to Bath ; he there halted and refreshed his army. In the reign of Edward the Confessor (1041-1066) Siward was Lord of the Manor of Tetbury ; it was held by Roger de Jueri, who had also large posses- sions in Berks, Bucks, Oxford, Gloucestershire, Himtingdon, and Warwick, in the time of William the Conqueror. The following account of this manor is given in Domesday :* — " In Langetrewes Hund. isdem Bog. Worcester. Tatfritb, '< vir strenuisdmus et doctissimas, atque excellentis ingenii " was to have been the first bishop, but he died suddenly, and Bosel was elected in his place. The division of the Diocese of Lichfield was determined at the Council of Hat- field, A.D. 675. — See Tanner's Notitia Monastica and Seyer's Jlistonf ofBristoly vol. i., p. 227. ' Brompton. ' Domesday Book was caUed '' Liber Judiciarius vel censu- 8 ten. Tetebebie. Ibi xxiii. hide geld. Siward tenuit T. R. E. In d'nio s't viii. car., et xxxii. vill'i, et ii. bord, et ii. radchen ; cum pTbro inter om's b'ntes xiiii. car. Ibi xviiii. servi et malin. de xv. den. et pastura de x. solid., et. x. ac. p'tL Isd. Roger, ten. Uptone. Ibi ii. hide, • et una v'geld. Aluricus tenuit de rege. E. In d'nio sunt ii. car., et v. vill'i. et iii. bord., ; cum iii. car. Ibi viii. servi. Hie duo M. T. R. E. val'b xxxiii. lib. modo simt ad firmam pro 1. lib. •* Roger de Jueri* holds Teteburie, in Langes- trewes Hundred. There are twenty-three hides alia Anglise.'' It was a general aarrey of all England, with the exception of Durham and Northumberland, and was com- menced in the reign of William the Conqueror by five Justices, A.D. 1080, and finished a.d. 1086. The taxes were levied according to this survey till 13 Henry YUL (1522.) Its name was derived, not as is generally supposed, from its being called the Book of Doom, from its severity, but from the Liber Judicialis, or Dom Boc of King Alfred. It was also called BotuluM Wintontce^ Liber de WintoniOf and Liber Regis. — See Sir H. Ellis*s Introd. to Domesday^ and Hadyn's Dictionary of Dates, • This Roger de Jueri appears to have been on terms of friend- riiip with Odo, Bishop of Baieux ; of Haseldene, one of the Manors entered to him in Gloucestershire, it is said, " Hoc Manerium tenuit quidam homo Bogeri de Episcopo Baiscensi pro xvi. lib. Postea dedit Episcopus eidem Rogeris cum firm&." This Manor a certain man named Roger held of the Bishop of Baieux for sixteen pounds. Afterwards the Bishop gave it to the aforesaid Roger with the farm.— Sir H. Ellis's Introd. to Domesday^ vol L, p. 441. which pay tax. Siward, held it in the time of King Edward. There are eight carucates, and thirty-two villeins, and two bordarers, and two redchenisters, with a priest, having among them all fourteen carucates. There are nineteen servi, and a miU of 15d., and pasture of 10s., and ten acres of meadow. The same Roger holds Uptone. There are two hides, and one yard land taxed. Alumcus held it of King Edward. There are two carucates, and five viUeins, and three bordarers, with three plow tillages. There are eight servi. These two manors were worth £33 in the time of King Edward, and they are now at farm for £50.'' By analysing tliis ancient survey, we may esti- mate the quantity of land which the parish then contained ; but first, it will be necessary for us to consider, the number of acres contained in a hide, and carucate, respectively. According to Sir Henry Ellis, in his Introduction to Domesday y a carucate was as much arable land as could be managed with one plough, and the beasts thereto belonging in one year, having meadow, p^ture, and houses for the householders, and cattle belonging to it ; and Selden also is of the same opinion. The carucate was of Norman introduction, and usually in Domesday follows the measure of the hide. We must also bear in mind, that in this survey, the axable land was measured by carucates, the common pastiure by hides, and the meadow by acres. At diflFerent times, the number of acres in the carucate differed, but 10 when considering the land mentioned in Domesday, we may safely suppose them to contain the same the distinction between the carucate and hide was lost. Beckoning at this yaluation, we shall find that the quantity of land contained in the parish, as men- tioned in Domesday, is much the same as at present. 1. In Tetbury — ACRE& The twenty-three hides of common pasture, at 120 acres per hide - 2760 The eight carucates of arable - - 960 The ten acres of meadow . . lo 2. At Upton — The two hides of pasture - - 240 The fiye carucates of arable - - 600 4570 Whilst the parish, according to the present mea- surement, contains 4,532 acres, statute measure. The cultivators of this land in the time of the Conqueror were — 1. At Tetbury— ViUani - - 32 Bordarii - - 2 Redchenisters - 2 Servi - - 19 — 55 2. At Upton — Villani - . 5 Bordarii - - 3 Servi - - 8 — 16 In all 71 11 In this reckoning, the wives and families of those employed in the land is not included, and allowing on an average a wife and three children to each, the population of the parish at that period (1086) would amount to 284 souls.^ It may not be uninteresting, if we add a few words, respecting the sodal condition of the several classes we have mentioned. The borda/rii, were in a less servile condition, then the servi and viUani, and were distinct from them. They had a small parcel of land allowed them on condition of their supplying their lord with poultry and eggs, and other such provisions, for his board and entertain- ment.* The viUaniy so called a viUd, because they lived chiefly in villages, were employed in rustic work of the most sordid kind. Their condition much resembled that of the Spartan Helots ; they could not leave their lord without his permission, they were annexed to his person, and transferable * At the time of the Domesday Borvey there were in Glou- cestershire : — TenaDts in Capite - • - - 102 Bordarii 1,792 Rachenistri - - - - - 137 Servi 2,044 'Vlllani 8,627 Uxoram Vlllanonim defiinctoram - 4 The total number of the inhabitants of the county was 8,366. —Sir H. Ellis's IrUrod. to Damssdc^j vol. ii., p. 444. ^ Kennet's Paroch, AnUq. Ohssary, 12 by deed from one owner to another.® If they ran away or were stolen, they might be reclaimed by action, like beasts, or other chattels. They could acquire no property, or goods, and if they purchased either, the lord might enter upon them and seize them for his own use.' As regard the ii radchen, or redchenisters men- tioned above, it is difficult to discover, what were the exact duties assigned to them. Sir Henry Ellis in his Introduction to Domesday, to which we have referred above, says p. 72, that " the description of tenantry named rachenistres, or radchenistres, ap- pear likewise to have been called radmanniy or rod- ToanSy and like the socmen were less free than others.'* Dr. Nash, the historian of Worcestershire, conjectiured that the radmanni, and radchenistres, were probably a kind of freemen who served on horsebLk.- ^ Wido de Areiues, gave to the Abbey of Oseney his land in Mixburj. '^ Lex Yirgatus terrae de villenagio, cum villanis, et eorum sectis et 8ervitiis."-^Kennett's Paroch. AnUq,^ vol. i., p. 299. 7 Blackstone's Comment^ vol. iii. p. 92, 93. 8 This word is also mentioned by Da Cange, who says, '^ De terrft hujus manerii tenebant Radchenistres, i.e. liberi homines. Yidentur iidem qai Bractono Rad4 Knights dicuntur, liberi scilicet homines qui tamen arabant, herciabant, falcabant, mete- bant, &c. Rady or Rede, signifies firm and stable, and these Redchenistres were oflen called soehemansy or sokemanniy because of their plough service from sokcy a plough. — See also Coke upon Lyttlitony sec. 117. 13 In the war between the Empress Maud, and Robert, Earl of Gloucester her brother, against King Stephen, in 1143, Mabnesbury was beseiged by the former, and the surrounding country forti- fied by him ; he either built a castle at Tetbury, or rebuilt the one which formerly existed there, as the following extract from Seyer's History of Bristol^ will shew. He is here quoting from the Gesta StephanV " Malmesbury was holden by a garrison for the king, and appears to have been a kind of frontier town. The Earl of Gloucester, wishing to get possession of it buUt three castles near it, whereby the garrison was reduced to extremity from want of food. When the king was informed of the great distresses of his men, he collected together an im- mense nimiber of soldiers, and suddenly and im- expectedly came to Malmesbury, and having sent in provisions sufficient for a long time, he raged most cruelly with fire, sword, and plimder aroimd the castles which the Earl had built ; and, setting up his tents near Tetbury, a castle only three miles distant from Malmesbiuy, he laboured earnestly » Vol. i., pp. 448, 450. ^ The Qe8tm Stephana Regis Anghrum et duds N'amumnomm^ was a record written bj Robert de Bee, a Norman Ecclesiastic and firm adherent of King Stephen, and perhaps his personal friend. The book is scarce and little known, not at all in English, and all his histoiy is tinged with a favourable account ot Stephen.— Sejer's History of Bristolj vol. i., p. 406. 14 with force and arms to take it The outward forttess of the castle [tdteriore oasteUi prapugTuiciilo] being at last bravely captured, and some soldiers being taken and slain, and many others wounded and forced in crowds into an inward retreat within a narrow compass, the king immediately brought up his machines on all sides, intending to shut them up by seige. But the Earl of Gloucester, when he heard of the king's approach, hastily collected an immense number of cavalry (mmum), inaamuch as he had very many castles in the neigfhbourhood, «.^e of hi, Z righl ^ other, feithfUly oWying him. He brought also together, a cruel and uncon- querable army, of Welchmen and Bristow [Bristol] men, and men of other cities in the neighbourhood, intending to fight the king. Eoger, also. Earl of H«ef„^*..d^ ^^intlefeu-uod^oudy afireeuifi: to assist him, havins^ collected their forces tiS came on ^th great Lpedition ; and being now only two mUes dktant from the king's army, waited until others who were hastening on, should come to their assistance. The Barons, who were with the king, hearing that such a numerous swarm of enemies was come together against them, and fearing the uncontrol- able barbarity of the Welchmen and the disorderly multitudes [incompositum vtdgus], of the Bristow- ans, a wonderful number of whom the Eaxl was leading in close array to fall upon them, dropped prudent counsel into the king's ear, and advised 15 him to break up the seige for a time and remove his army to some other place, where it might be wanted, because it was unadvisable and bordering on rashness, to expose his squadron of cavalry (militicB sucB cunewm) to such a host of prize fighters on foot, {tot pedestris muUUudinvi lanistas) for whom it was not a match ; whereas, on the other hand, their enemies coming out of their cities and castles in the neighbourhood, would be stronger and more prepared for battle ; that, therefore, it was prudent to retire from the seige for the present, lest the king being surrounded by fierce enemies, should suffer a defeaf For these reasons the king acquiesced in the prudent advice of his friends, and hastily removing the whole expedition from those places, suddenly came before Winchelcomb, where Boger the new Earl of Hereford had raised a castle against him, whidi was soon surrendered on conditions. A monastery existed in this town in the time of the Saxons, but no particulars except the record of its former existence now remain.' In the time of Henry HI. a Cistercian monastery was established here.' Beginald de S. Walerick, Lord of Haseldean, * Dogdale's Mcnastican Angliccmum^ vol, i., p. 258. * The Cistercian order was founded in 1098, bj Robert Hard- ing, an Englishman, a Benedictine, and Abbot of Molesme, in Burgundy, in the Diocese of Langres. He had made most zealous efforts to revive the decaying piety of his Convent; but not succeeding, he retired with about twenty of his monks 16 removed them from that plax)e to Tetbury in 1140, but some years after, finding themselves incon- venienced from want of water, they removed to Elingswood, leaving Tetbury as a grange to the abbey there. They remained settled at Kingswood till the dissolution of the monasteriea The land on which this town is built, and all the manor belonging thereto, was formerly known by the name of the Fforren. This town and manor Henry I. gave to William de Braose. He granted to the town its first charter of privileges, by virtue of which they had a weekly market day on Wed- nesday's, and one fair day yearly, on " Sancti De Maria.^ " Matilda de Long Spee, who was after- wards Lady of the manor, confirmed the charter given them by King Henry to the burgesses of Tetbury, "to hold to them also y* liberties and to Citeaux, in the Diocese of Chalons. There he founded this celebrated order. Their great and fundamental law was the rule of S. Benedict, which thej rigorously observed. Eudes, Duke of Burgundy, built a monastery for them. The first Cis- tercian monastery in England, was that of Waverley, in Surrey, 1129. In the reign of Edward I. there were sixty-one Cister- cian monasteries in England. — Dugdale*s Monasdcon, Hook's Church Dictionary. ' ^ This £eLir attained to great importance, towards the end of the 13th century, and in the year 1303 a petition of grievances was presented to the king, (Edward 1.) from the burgesses of Bristol, against the Lord Berkeley and his son Maurice, for that he beat, and imprisoned, divers of the burgesses of Bristol '^ at the great faire of Tetburie." \f 17 ffiree customes contained in the Britain^ Law, in aa ample a manner as the burgesses of Hereford had or used." Edward I., in the fifteenth year of his reign (1287), brought a writ of quo warranto^ against William de Braosa^ son of John, Lord de Braosa» for the liberties he claimed in Tetbury. Whereupon it was foimd ihsA. Tetbxuy was an ancient borough town ; and that in the same he had a Market, Fair, View of Frankpledge* in Longthiefe, weaved goods, and free warren, which had used time out of mind. ^ A corporation maj be dissolved, bj forfeitare of its charter, through negligence or abuse of its franchises ; in which case, the law judges that the body politic has broken the condition upon which it was incorporated, whereupon the incorporation has become void. And the regular course is to bring an information in nature of a writ quo tfforantOj that is, to enquire '* by what warrant" the members now exercise their corporate power, having forfeited it by such and such proceedings. — Blackstone's Commentaries^ abridged by S. Warren, d.c.l., pp. 394, 395. The nature of a writ quo warrwUo is thus accurately defined by Blackstone himself. Comment.^ vol. ilL, p. 262. ed. 1809 : — " A writ of quo warranto is in the nature of a writ of right for the Eang, against him who claims or usurps any office, functions, or liberty, to enquire by what authority he supports his claim in order to determine the right." * The view of Frank pledge or Court ket was a court of record held once in the year and not oftener, within a particular Hun- dred, Lordship, or Manor, before the Steward of the Leet, being the King's Court, granted by Charter to the Lords of those Hundreds or Manors. Its original intent was to view the frank pledges, t.e. the freemen within the liberty; who, according to c 18 and had also three tumbrils, pillory, and stocks ; all which was declared in his favour by the verdict of twelve freeholders of the Hundred of Longtree, which verdict was returned to the Kingfs Court of Exchequer, and was there registered Edward HI, in the twenty-fourth year of his reign (1351), granted to Thomas de Braosa (who then held, by the King's grant, a fair for one day at his manor of Tetbury) his royal permission to add to that one day, six other days, for the the continuance of the fair, viz. : " That the fair be holden three dales before Sancti Maria (and on that day), and three days after, at the said Manor of Tetbury." In the thirty-sixth year of his reign (1363), a license was granted to Walter de Walters, of Tetbury, and others, to give twenty-four ines- suages and sixty acres of land in Tetbury, " to a Chantry Priest to sing for tiie souls of Peter de Bmosa, and Agnes his wife, and Thomas their son/' In the twenty-eighth year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth (1586), there was an Inquisition held at Tetbury, by virtue of a Commission from Her Majesty's High Court of Chancery, directed to Sir Thomas Estoourt, Sir William Sandys, and others, according to the statute of charitable uses. the institution of the Great Alfred, were all mutnallj pledged for the good behaviotir of each other. — Blackstone's ConmmL^ vol. iv., p. 178. 19 Whereupon, divers presentments by the oaths of Eichard Payne, Gfent., and fifteen others, were sworn, and divers orders were afterwards made by the said Commissioners, and returned into the High Court of Chancery for the public good of the town. In 1643, Charles I. visited this town. His visit is thus described in the Iter Carolinimi, a relation of the marches of Charles L, firom 1641 to 1643 : " Tuesday, August 8th, to Tetbury to dinner."® During the Civil War there appears to have been a good deal of fighting in the neighbourhood of Tetbury ; and towards the end of the year 1643 the whole country was kept in a perpetual state of alarm. Both parties established themselves in every eligible spot, where a castle or defensible house could be found. Colonel Massey, who commanded for the Parliament, was continually skirmishing, and kept all his adversaries on the alert. " In the space of five months there was 6 See A List of his Majesty's Marches^ from Oxford to BristowSj Gloucester seige^ 4rc»7 beginning the ist August, 1643 : — 8. From Oxford to Farrindon, dinner ; 1 - iQ.ia Malmesbury, supper and bed - - J Bristol taken bj the King. 2. To Bristol 6 22 8. To Tedbur^j dinner ; to Cirences- 1 ter, supper and bed; Sir Wm. > I 20-8 Masters ) 9. To Pansweek - - - - 1 U ^2 20 fighting at Berkeley, Beverstone, Cheltenliainy Huntley, Marshfield, Newent, Painswick, Tainton, Tetbury, and Wootton-under-Edge. He himself was often expcwaed to extreme periL" ^ John Corbet, a Puritanical preacher, in his His- torical Relation of the Military Government of Gkmcester, published in 1645, states "that on the other side of the city (Gloucester), the enemy (the Royalists) was emboldened to erect new govenmiente at Tedbuiy and Wotton-under-Edge. Men did invite the govemour to march that way, who withall had his eye upon Beverstone Castle, newly gaxiiaon'd aad commanding the rich dothiers of Stroudwater ; hither he advanced with a party of three himdred foot, and fo\ir score horse. These horse sent before were so formidable to the enemy at Tedbury, that the govemour, Horatio Cary, with his whole raiment, were put to flight, and dissipated with the loss of fourteen of their men slain and taken prisoners/' * Afterwards he speaks of Colonel Massie attacking Malmesbury, which was defended by CoL Henry Howard, who resolutely refused to surrender when summoned by CoL Massie. "Thereupon our foot and artillery were brought up from Tedbury, and within two houres drawne into the suburbs and 7 Washboum's BUfUotheca Oloucesterieimay vol. ii., p. 81. * Historical Belation of the MiUtary Oovemment of Oloucetterj by John Corbet, preacher of God's Word^ 1645, p. 66. 21 lower part of the towna"' The place was after- wards taken by Colonel Massie. In 1 663, Charles IL passed through Tetbury on his way to Bath. He was acoompanied by his Queen Eatherine. On the 5th of September, they visited Bristol : they were received there by Sir Bobert Cann, mayor, and Sir Bobert Atkyns, the recorder. On Tuesday, Sept 6th, 1687, James II. passed through Tetbury on a progress to Bath.* In 1666, when the plague was raging in London, and causing dismay throughout the country, pre- cautions were taken at Tetbury to prevent its reaching the town, as the following Bules and Bye Laws, enacted at that period by the inhabitants, will shew :* '* Bules and By Laws to be observed within the Towne of Tetbury, in the County of Gloucester, for the better preserving the s* Towne (by the blessing of God) from the infection of the Plague. "Agreed upon by the greater number of the inhabitants of the s^ Towne, mett together for that purpose (ailer publique notice), on the twenty-fifth day of September, in the seven- 9/^ p. 98. > See Churchwardens' account of ihat year. > See London OaztUe^ No. 2,276, Sept 12, 1687. ' The original document is preserred in the Town Chest « «( *c 22 teenth year of the Reigne of King Charles the Second. i. That eight persons, householders of the s' towne (that is to say), the two constables for the time being, together with six others of the prindpale and most substantiale inhabitants of the said towne (to be from time to time, as need shall require, chosen by the greater number of the householders mett together, upon a general notice thereof first given, to be called assistants to the said constables), shall take care to see watch and ward constantly kept in the said towne, by a competent number of the inhabitants who are best able to undergoe and performe that service. ii. That every householder (who through poverty is not disabled to performe that service, and to spare soe much time from his daily labour, and for that reason to be excused by the greater number of the said eight pa:Bons,) shall either by himselfe, or by such other sufficient person to be approved of by the sayd constables, or the 8^ assistants, or any two of them, attend and serve in watching and warding, upon due notice given to that purpose. iii. That if the said constables or assistants, or any of them, or any persons appointed to watch and ward, shaQ be negligent in performing their respective services, that forthwith complaint shaU be made thereof to some one or more of His (i M <( 23 Ma"" JusticeB of the Peace, for the County of of Glour"' that sudi course may be taken against them, as shall be agreeable to law. iv. That noe traveller from the dtty of London, or any other place, nor any goods whatsoever, shall be red^ into the sayd towne, unlesse good satis- faction by certifficate, or otherwise, shall be first given, to two or more of the s* eight persons, that the said traveller, or goods, have not for the space of a month before^ at the least, been in any place infected. V. That if any householder shall permitt any such traveller, or other stranger, or other person what- soever, or any goods, to come or bee brought into his or her house, before such satisfaction soe as afores^ given, to the sayd eight persons, or two of them, then the s^ householder, and all his, or her family, together with the said stranger, or other person, or such goods, shall be removed to some place out of the towne, there to remaine for a month, and for such longer time, if th^re shall be apparent cause for it, as shall be thought fitt by the greater niunber of the s"^ eight persons. vi. That noe carrier, by horse, waggon, or waine, or other caxiiage. sh^ bring or drive their horses, waggons, or waines, or other carriages, into, or through the s^ towne, or to baite, or lodge in the s"* towne, but be directed to passe some back way by the sayd towne, according ti u 24 as his, or her journey lieth, being fiimished with such necessaries, at reasonable rates, as the sayd towne will afford, to be delivered to them out of the towne. vii. That the children or ffiiends of any of the inhabitants of this towne, shall not be re- ceived into the sayd towne, untill they have remained by the space of a month in some convenient place out of the s* towne, and not then neither, if any two of the s* eight persons, shaU see any just and apparent cause to suspect there shall be still any infection with them, and shall soe declare. viii. K any inhabitant shall breake or transgresse any of these rules or directions, complaint shall be made forthwith thereof, to some one or more of His Ma*** Justices of the Peace for this Coimty, to the end, hee or shee, may receive due punish- ment for the sama ix. Wee the inhabitants of the towne of Tetbuiy, whose names are hereimto subscribed, do nomi- nate and make choice of (for to be assistants unto the constables, according to the first of these articles), Moses Wickea, Toby Mayo, Mathew Beale, Senr., Edward Sloper, John Sherman, and John Arrowsmith : And also wee give our consent to all the articles aforesaid : And to them have subscribed our hands the day and year first above written. " D. NoBRis, Vic. Matthew Beale, Junb, 25 George Blake Tho. Uphman Geobge Ghambebs John Denning Wm. Mayo James Smyth Will : Savage John Savage Hen: Chapman John Undrill FFRANCfIS HOBBS BicHABD Amos William Davis. "We have perused these rules and by lawes, agreed upon by f inhabitants of Tetbury, whose Names are subscribed and do approve of y* same, and of y* persons named for Assistants to y* Constables, and order y* same accordingly. RoBT. Atkyns (L.S.) Tho. Estoourt (L.S.) J. Sheppard (L.S.)" These rules seem to have been rigidly enforced, and the town in consequence kept free from in- fection, as no record of the inhabitants having suffered in any degree from the effects of the plague remains. But not many years after, the town was visited with a most severe attack of Small Pox ; so severe, indeed, that but few of the inhabitants escaped. I have seen a handbill published at the time, in which the event is thus described : " The Tedbury Wonder : or a True and Exact list of the Names of those Persons who have had the Small Pox in the Town aforesaid, with the Number of Persons that Died, and likewise those that Recovered, froila the 14th of October, 1710, 26 to the 27th of April, 1711. Being near Seven Hundred and Kfty/' * From the subjoined list, it appears that about eighty persons died at this time of that disease. But in general the town is ceLebrated for its salubrity, and many of its inhabitants have reached a very old age. The most remarkable instance on record, is that of old Henry West, of Upton, in this parish, who lived to the extraordinary age of 152 yeara The following account of him is extracted from the fly-leaf of a Bible published in 1599, now in the possession of Mr. J, G. Goodwyn, of Tetbury. Extract from au old writing in the possession of one of the TyreHs, a descendant of Henry West, formerly possessor of this Bible. An Aocx)unt of a very Old Man. "Gentlemen, — Be pleased to understand this following discourse, I received from the information of a very honest and creditable inan aa may Hve by breath ; and although it may seem very misterious and iacreditable to many, yet having, notwithstanding, heard it so largely and oftentimes made out, insomuch that I dare be bold to atest it, for almost an in&llible truth. "There was, in the days of King James the First, a man that lived in a small hamlet called * The originfil is in the i)088ession of Mr. T. A. Saunders, of the Croft, Tetbiuy. 27 Upton, in the parish of Tetbury, his name was Henry West, his occupation and employment what it might be I know not, but in process of time, it came to pass that this man had the number of five wives. Now, by the four first he had no child at all ; but by his bust wife, it pleased Almighty Grod to give him the increase of ten children. Furthermore be it known, that the great Creator of all men, gave him such a large space of time to live here on earth, that he saw every one of these ten duldren, to have ten children each of them ; and afterwards, having lived to the age of 152 years, the Lord was to put a period to his time, being old and full of days. Now, I supose that the Uke example was not in any time past, nor now to be equalised or foimd in any part of the realm of England, or in any part of Europe.'' * ft Mr. Simon Moreau, formerly Master of the Ceremonies at Cheltenham, in his Tour to the Rcyal Spa (published at Bath, 1793, by R. Cruttwell, p. 170;, notices the remarkably healthy air of Tetbary, and continues—" as a proof of this, the most extraordinary instance of longevity to be produced in this county is, of one Henry West, who in the reign of James L, resided at Upton, a hamlet in this parish. He lived to the age of 152 years, and one of his descendants has a Bible in his possession wherein it is written that he had five wives ; by four, he had no children, but by the fifth he had ten ; and lived to see a hundred grandchildren, to each of whom he gave a brass pot or kettle/' Some of these pots have recently been offered for sale to the / 28 Another instanoe of longevity is recorded by the Eev. I. Wight, formerly vicax of Tetbury, in a MS. on the fly-leaf of Parish Roister No. 1 : *' Ambrose Ind, buried Jannaiy 15, 1685, was 106 years old when he dyed ; and having been blind for several years, to such a degree that he could not go to Church without being led, reco- vered his sight after he was an hundred years old, so that he was able to distingmsh the features of every one that came near him. This account being singular of its kind, and which I received of his great granddaughter, I thought worthy of being recorded, and which I have the greater reason to credit, as I find he is entered among the burials by the name of Old Ambrose In A* John Wight, Vicar.'* ironmongen in this town ; they were made of bell metal, and had the name ^ West," cast on the bottom of them. To show how fayonrable to long life the air of Tetbury is, I have extracted the names of twelve persons, with their ages, from one page of the Burial Register of the year 1760 : — James Smith, gardener, aged 92, Feb. 3. John Dobbins, labourer, aged 70, Feb. 4. Eliz. relict of John Webb, fet. 82, Feb. 9. John Chamberlin, aged 83, March I. Margaret Bymer, Widow, aged 78, March 8. Hester, relict of Josiah Paul, aged 76^ March 17. Thomas Davis, aged 7 1, March 26. William Ecot of Charlton, aet. 99, April 2a. Lydia, relict of Richard Holdy, aged 83, May 2. Mary, relict of Mr. Giles Body, aged 73, June 5. 29 1728. April. Whilst burying a cotpse in the meeting house at Tetbury, the grave being dug near a pillar that supported a large gallery, it was imdermined, and the gallery fell, and although many persons were under it, but fortunately only two or three were slightly wounded.'^ 1763. June 28. On this day, a desperate highwayman, not above 18, after robbing several people on the Gloucester road, met a man on his retiun from Tetbury Market, with a boy before him. The man making some demur in deUvering his watch, the villain pulled out a pistol and shot him dead. Having been soon after apprehended at a black- smithes on suspicion, and in his examination con- fronted with one whom he had robbed previously, he pulled out a knife and cut his throat, though not effectually enough to escape the gallows. He was tried at the ensuing Gloucester assizes, and received sentence of death, July 23.* 1769. On Friday, September 22, a melancholy affidr Edward Bailey, piglierd, aged 73, Not. 1L Mary, relict of John Chamberlin, aged 82, Nov. 15. The united ages of these twelve peraons amount to 962 years, or an average of eighty years and two months, to each life. 7 Bead's Jaumalj Saturday, April 6, 1728. • Annuai Begisierj 1763, pp. 88 and 91. 30 happened at Tetbury, a publican ran against a beam in his house, and was killed. 1777. Saturday, May 1 7. The wife of a tradesman at Tetbury, in Gloucestershire, murdered her own child in a shocking maimer. A short time before she cut up some veal and sent it to be baked, and then went up-stairs and found the child asleep, and cut off its head with the same knife, and laid the knife down by its side. The name of the child was Jane, daughter of William Ludlam. She was buried May 19.« 1781. This year, the street leading from the Market place to the Chipping Crofl, was widened at the expense of the Feoffees. It cost upwards of £400.* 1789. On the evening of Tuesday, the 3rd of February, a tremendous storm of thunder and lightning fell at Tetbury. The electric fluid broke a large hole through the steeple on the west side of the Church, which, if reduced to a square, would be four feet wide. On the south side, it made ahnost a per- pendicular crack, nearly six yards in length ; it also shattered and displaced the ribstones on the South- West and North- West sides, from the top to the bottom. Many stones were scattered about »/Wa; 1777, p, 244. 1 MSS., B.C., 1788. 31 the Churchyard, and one fell through a house at a distance. At the time, it was thought that the spire was so much shaken as to necessitate its being taken down ; but this was afterwards found not to be required The Church was not materially damaged, although many small holes were made in the Cloisters. It is remarkable, that the lightning forced its way through the stonework on the sides and tops of the windows, more than through the glaas.' 1797. A periodical, called "The County Oracle and Political Intelligencer," was in 1797 published fortnightly here. The motto it adopted was, " To please and to instruct alike our aim.** How long it existed is not now known. It was published by J. Wilton, at the Apollo Press, Tetbiuy. 1803. This year, when all England was alarmed by the prospect of an invasion by Napoleon, Tetbury was not behind-hand in Aimishing its quota of men for the defence of the country. On the 15th of August, 1803, a meeting was held in the Town Hall, Thomas Saunders, E^sq., in the chair ; at which it was resolved : " That, as most persons in this town had enrolled themselves as Volunteers, a Corps of In&ntry, with arms and dothes, be formed, in conformity with the recommendation of * Oenileman's Magcume^ Deer. 1789, p. 170. 32 His Majesty's Secretary of State." The following gentlemen were appointed o£B[oers : Henry Hall Sloper, Esq., Captain. Robert Clark Paul, and John Wood, Esqrs., LieutenarUs. Henry Julius Biedermann, Esq., Ensign. It was also intimated that an additional Corps of Infantry could be fur- nished from the town, if required. 1805. On the 26 th of March, new colours were pre- sented to the Tetbury and Horsley Volunteers, under the command of Lieut.-CoL Saunders, at Eongsoote Park, by the Countess of Berkeley. On one side of the colours were the words> " United in defence of our King and country f and on the other, "Longtree Hundred." The colours were consecrated, and appropriate prayers offered by the Rev. Richard Davies, the Vicar of Tetbury and Horsley.' The principal government of the town is in the hands of seven Feoffees, who are the Lords of the Manor, and who manage its revenues and charities, and each year, at Michaelmas, publish a general statement of the income and expenditure of the Tetbury Charity Estates, confided to their keeping. The Feoffees hold a Court Leet every year, on the Monday nearest the 11th of October, at which ' For a full acconnt of the presentation of these colours, with 4he speeches detivered on the occasion, see the Olau* cuter Herald of March 30, 1805. 33 court a King or Queen's Bailiff is annually chosen. He is usually the senior Thirteen who has not served that office/ The Thirteen are that number of the "gravest, chiefest, and discreetest towns- men/' chosen as brethren and assistants to the Bailiff; they fill up vacancies in their own body as they occur. When a vacancy occurs in the number of the Feoffees, a new one is elected by tiie survivors, and the Thirteen. * Tlie duties of a King and Queen's Bailiff is to preserve the rights of the Sovereign within his bailiwick. A county was frequently so called in the writs. The term BaiUwick was introduced by the Princes of the Norman line in imi- tation of the French, whose country is divided into baili- wicks, as that of England into counties. —Blackstone's Cam,^ vol. i., p. 344. The word Bailiff is derived from the French, BaiUer^ to deliver. Dutch, Body BaUliu. A Bailiff is a person to whom authority, care, guardianship, or jurisdiction is delivered. The meaning of this word, as used by our ancestors, will be further illustrated by the following extracts from Chaucer and Wicliffe: — " Now brother, quod this Sompnour, I you pri^ Teche me, while that we ride by the way; (Sith that ye be a baUUf as am I) Som subtilee." Chaucer, The Freres TaUj v. 7002. '^And the haylyf seide withyne himself, what schal I do: for my lord takith away fro me the haylie; delve I may not: I schame to begge." — ^Wicliffe's Bibky St. Luke xvi., 3. — See Richardson's Dictionary^ from which the above illus- trations are taken. D 34 The Lectiirer, Schoolmaater, and the Ahnshouse people, are appointed by the Feoffeea Anciently there was another body, called the Twenty-fotir or C!ommonalty, from which body were elected annually, two constables, two war- dens, two camals (or assizers of bread,) two ale tasters, and two leather sellers. These officers are still elected annually from among the towns-people, but there is now no recognized body called the Twenty-four. The Fairs of the town are held on Ash-Wednes- day, and July 22nd, (formerly St. Mary Magdalene day, to whom the Church is dedicated,) and on the second Wednesday in November. They are for cattle, sheep, &c. The weekly market is held on Wednesday, from twelve to two. The com market has been much improved of late years, the system now used^ being that of pitched samples. On an average one himdred and seventy quarters of wheat change hands every market day. It is considered one of the best com markets in the county, and is held in the Arcade, under the Assembly Boom, at the White Hart The statute fairs for hiring servants, or " mops, '^ as they are usually called, are held on the Wednes- day before the 5th of April, and the Wednesdays before and after the 10th of October in each year. A new system of registering servants who are hired, similar to that in use at Chippenham, and Wootton 35 Bassett, has been thid year (1856) introduced, and seems likely to be productive of much good. In 1714 (according to Wanter, in his MS, History of Gloucestershire,) as much as ^1000 exchanged hands in Tetbury every market day. The chief commodities then sold, were wool, yam, serge, com, bacon, cheese, and cattle ; but this trade has almost entirely ceased, and the market toUs are now let annually for about £1 4. Having thus given some account of the past his- tory of the town, we will now proceed to describe its present condition. The town of Tetbury stands on an elevated and commanding situation, on the high road between Bath and Oxford. On the whole it is well built, and many of the houses are of considerable an- tiquity. It consists principaUy of a Long Street, crossed at right angles by two shorter ones, that on the North Side leading to the spacious area, called the Chipping (in which the market was formerly held, and in which the remains of the old Cistercian Monastery may still be seen) ; that on the South to the Parish Church, from whence it derives its name. A spacious Town Hall, erected on three rows of solid stone pillars, occupies the central space, at the meeting of the streets. It was built originally in 1655, and was a handsome and commodious build- ing. aa will be seen from the aooompaDying sketch. It was altered and enlarged in 1817, at a great 36 expense, but although rendered more suitable for modem purposes by the alteration, its outward appearance has greviously suffered thereby. In the principal room of this building, the Feoffees hold their business meetings, and m it tl^e greater part ofthe affairs ofthe parish are transacted In it, also, the Petty Sessions are held fortnightly, on Wednesday. The names of the Magistrates serving on these Sessions are given below.* The town clock is placed above the central window of the Town Hall, one face of which is seen firom Long street, the other from Church street. It is much to be wished that the Chinxjh and Town clocks kept the same time, but at present, they are at perpetual variance. In the arcade, beneath the Town Hall, is an iron pump, which was erected at the expense of the Bev. John Wight, formerly vicar of Tetbuiy. ^ Thomas Henry Songscote, Esq., Kingscote Park. Thomas Henry S. Sotheron Estcourt, Esq., M.P., Estcourt Robert Stajner Holford, Esq., M.P., Weston Birt. Walter M. Paul, Esq., High Grove. William Brookes, Esq., Elmestree. Joseph Wood, Esq., The Close, Tetburj. Edward Dagdale Backnall Estcourt, Esq., Charlton. Lewis Clutterbuck, Esq., Newark Park, Ozleworth. John Wallington, Esq., Crudwell House, Tetbury. The Rev. R. W. Huntley, Boxwell Court. The Rev. Wm. George, Cherrington. 37 It was opened for the use of the public, on Septem- ber 29th, 1749; other public pumps have of late years been erected by the Feoffeea A spacious area, called " the Chipping, " is situat- ed on the north side of the town. On it may still be seen, some of the ruins of the old Cistercian monastery ; that which now remains was probably the Priory House. An interesting Paper on this subject was ad- dressed by Dr. Bamett to Sir Henry EUis, the Secretary of the Koyal Antiquarian Society, and published in its Transactions.^ In this Paper, Dr. Bamett deems it highly proba- ble that the Convent in question not being suffici- ently commodious to accommodate the Prior, forty monks, and perhaps attendants, he might have had a separate dwelling on the spot where now stands the mansion called '' The Priory ;" and as an addi- tional reason for this, I may add, that in sinking a quarry a few years ago, between the two points, the workmen struck upon a passage, which it is much to be regretted was not followed up, as it would probably have proved to have been a sub- terranean passage between the Priory and private ^eidenoe. IhTe l«en informed tu/ dwdliig waa called the Manor House, and an old account of rents paid to the Lord of the Manor in 1594, is conclusive on that point. ^ ArchaUogia^ yoL zzzi., p. 513-515. 38 The common seal represented the Blessed Virgin crowned, holding in her arms the in&nt Jesus, and standing between two elegant pilastres, sur- mounted bj a canopy ; the field diapered ; in base under the arch, the half figure of a monk praying. The legend is much flattened, so that no more of it can be read than S. C!0E . . CONVKNTVS . . De B[ingwod. The building stands conspicuously in the Chipping, but great part of it has been modernised : and it would appear that this alteration took place about the end of the reign of Elissabeth, or beginning of King James I., as the panelling in a smiall room appears of that date. Tliere remains, however, a considerable portion in good repair, consisting of refectoiy, dormitories, arches, and cellars. I was much struck with the appearance of this building some years ago ; but all my inquiries ended in the information, that it was known for the last eighty or ninety years as the **old wool loft,'' it being appropriated to such purpose when that commodity was the staple trade of the town. It evidently bears internal proo& of having been erected for monastic purposes. .} A Bull-ring till of late years was to be seen in the Chipping ; but I cannot find any record of buU-baiting being carried on there. The market wa, formJly held on this spot, «.d ^ feir for cattle in November is still held here. It derives its name from the Saxon Ceaping, a buying, mer- 39 ohandiBe ;' as do also Cheapside, Chippenham, and Chepstow. A Bculway was projected in 1839, to connect the important manufocturing districts of Stroud, NaUs- worth, Tetbury, and Malmesbury, in. a direct line with the North and South of England. It was to have commenced at Cainscross, and passing by Bodborough, Woodchester, Nailsworth, Avening, Tetbury, Malmesbury, Hullavington, and Grittle- ton, was intended to meet the Wilts and Somerset line, at Thingley, near Chippenham. The line was surveyed throughout, and the necessary plans were made ; but the design was abandoned, through its not receiving the energetic support of the neighbouring landholdera We trust, however, that it is but laid aside for a time, and that ere long Tetbury will have the advantage of a Railway direct to the town, without which, in the present day, no place can be sure of any permanent pros- perity. ^e »pri^ riau* in this parid. ™ worthy of especial mention. The Bristol Avon takes its rise from the spring in Magdalen Meadow, which is one of the original sources of that river. It leaves the parish almost immediately, and passing by Brokenborough, Malmesbury, Chippenham, and * ^ In Saxon, Ceapman is a merchant ; Ceagnmgy commerce ; Cec^UnVf a markei place ; Cec^ng^ a buying, merchandise, &c. (See Dr. Boeworth't Angh'Saw&n Dictkmarif,) 40 Bath, (where it becomes navigable,) runs to Bristol, and there falls into the Severn. This river was formerly the boundary between the kingdom of Wiccia, and that of the West Saxons. The water of the spring in Magdalen Meadow was famed in past years, both for its healing and petrifying nature. It was said to be exceedingly good for sore eyes, and to possess many oth^ excellent qualities ; but at the present time it has become mixed with other streams, and we are afraid has lost both these virtues. The following extract from Eiigland Displayed will shew in what esteem it was held when this book was published.' ** A little to the north of this town is a meadow called Maudlin Meadow, because, as we were told, it belongs to Magdalen College, Oxford. Here the inhabitants shewed us the head of a spring, which flowing from thence runs along a hedge-trough, and some tops of the wood that grows in the hedge rotting, and falling into this rill of water, are by it turned to stone. We took up a great many of them, which are generaUy in the shape of pipes, (as they are commonly called,) which the peruke makers curl tteir hair upon, and of a whitish, Btony substance. We broke divers of them, and in the middle found generally a stick of wood, some as big as a goose qmll, and others larger ; some had but a thin stony crust about them ; in others the ^ Page 26, pablished by Adlard and Brown, London, 1769. 41 stick was no bigger than a large needle. Again, some had no stick in them, but only a hole through them like that of a tobacco-pipe ; and in some others we could perceive no woody substance, nor hole at all, but the whole was a soft kind of stone. Hence we guess that the sand which the water brings down with it, gathers and crusts about these sticks, and that in time the stick consumes, and the stony and sandy substance fills up and supplies its place." How much this spring was valued, and how needed it was to the inhabitants of the town, is shewn by the titles of the following deeds, bearing date in the reign of Edward HI. and Henry VII. " One deed wherein John de Breousa» L* of Tetbiuy, sonne and heyre of L"^ Thomas Breousa, granteth for ever to the inhabitants of Tetbuiy firee liberty to fetch water in Magdalen Mead, with simdry other dausea Dated Anno B. Edward III, the 30th (1357).'' "One deed whereby it appeareth, that John Lymericke, of Tetbury, gent., hath for him and his heyres for ever, given leave to all the inhabitants of Tetbuiy to fetch yrater at one, or well spring butting uppon Maudlen Mead, in Tetbury Field. Dated Jan. 19, Anno B. Hen. YH., the 2nd (1487).'' The town, however, is now well supplied with water, both fix>m public pumps and from the springs of Cutwell, Fieldwell, Worwell, limewell, Sharp's 42 Well and Homewell, in the immediate neighbour- hood Magdalen Meadow is now the property of Robert Clark Paul Esq. The date of the foundation of the Alms Housb, which is situated near the Parish Church, cannot now be ascertained, with any degree of certainty. It is usually supposed to have bten foimded by Sir WiUiaL ^^, but tius, ^thout doubt, is erroneoua An old deed, without date, shews us that the spot on which it now stands was many centuries ago dedicated to a religious pur- posa Probably at the Beformation, when the object for which it was originally given was done away with, by the rejection of the superstitions which the Bomish Church had grafted on the faith of the Primitive Church, it was applied to its present purpose. The title of the deed referred to is as follows : "Imp"" One deed, shewing how Will" Parson and Xowdan his sonne, did give one peeoe of f land knowne to be sdttuate, lying, and being between the house of one Peter a Smyth, and the Church yarde of Tetbury, to this intente, that one lamph might be kept burning w^ oyle, and other necessaries thereunto required, in the Pish. Churdi of Tetbury, at the celebration of Masse for ever; which deed is without date, but it is signified that Philyp of Tetbury, Walter of Upton, Walter of 4d Doughton, and Will°^ of Bodmarton, were witnessee to the sealing thereof" At the present time, eight poor women imde in the Alms House ; each having a room rent fi«e, and receivmg about 308. a year from dif- ferent benefactions left for that purpose. When a vacancy occurs, the Feoffees fill it up. The town of Tetbuiy is in the Eastern Division of the County of Gloucester, at its South-Eastem extremily, and in the Hundred of Longtree. Its population in 1851 was 3,325, and the acreage of the parish was 4,582. It is a hundred miles from London, twenty-three from Bath, twenty-five fifom Cheltenham, twenty-five from Bristol, twenty- one from Gloucester, fifteen firom Chippenham, ten from Cirencester, and six and a half from the Tetbury Bead Station, of the Great Western Railway. According to the Ecclemastical Division, the parish is in the Deanery of Stonehouse,^ the Arch- B The p^irishes in the Deanery of Stonehouse are, Avening, R. Coberley, R. Rodborongh, R. NaUfiworth, C. Cowley, R. Misendon, R. BiAley, y. Eastrington, R. Nympsfield, R. Bussage, P.O. Edgeworth, R. Painswick, Y. Chalford, P.C. Elkstone, R Shepscombe, P.C. Oakridge, P.C. Hordey, V. Slad, P.C. Brimpsfield, Wilts. Minchinhampton, R. Rodmarton, R. Cranbam, R. Amberley, R. Sapperton, R. Cherrington, R. Briiucombe, R. Shipton Moyne, R. 44 deaconiy of Gloucester, and the united Diooeses of Gloucester and Bristol The town is in Lat. 51' 38' N., Long. 2' 11' W. The length of the parish from East to West is about five miles. The town is about a mUe and a half in circumference, and in 1851 contained 674 houses. The principal hotels are, the White Hart, kept by Mr. Bichard Bannister, and the Talbot, by Mr. James Webb. The Assembly Booms, at the former, were erected at the expense of B. S. Holford, Esq., in 1851-2. The Poor Bates for this parish, at a shilling in the pound, amounted in 1855 to £1,282 18s. 2|d. ; and the Paving and Lighting Bate in the same year to £61 6a 2d. In 1803, the money raised by the Parish Bates, at a shilling in the pound, amounted to £1,641 15s. 5^.» There are Places of Worship in the town for Baptists, Wesleyans, Plymouth Brethren, and Independents. The Tetbuby Savings Bank was instituted at a meeting held in the Town Hall, on Monday, Stanley Begis, B. Stroad, P.C. Winstone, R. St. Leonard's, P.C. Whiteshill, P.G Woodchester, B Stonehoose, Y. Syde, B. St. Matthew, P.O. Tetbuiy, V. ' CarMe'd Topo^raphf. 46 the 8th September, 1817 ; Henry, sixth Duke of Beaufort, in the chair. The first officers appointed were: PresideTUy The Duke of Beaufort Vice- PresidentSy Lord Dude, Lord Viscount Andover, Sir C. B. Codrington, Bart., R. P. (Jordon, Esq., M.P., Robert Blagden Hale, Esq., Joseph Pitt, Esq., M.P. TrusteeSy Thomas Estcourt, George Holford, M.P., Robert Kingscote, John Paul Paul, David Bicardo, Thomas Smith, and Edward Sheppard, Esqrs. At the end of the first year, (28th October, 1818,) the sum received from depositors amounted to £4,743 lis. 7d At the year ending 20th November, 1855, the number of depositors was 1,430, and the sum deposited amounted to £40,994 9& 2d In addition to this, thirteen charitable societies had in the bank £582 16a lid., and five friendly societies £506 19s. lid, making in the whole £42,084 68. These figures alone afford ample proof of the great success of this ii^itution, and of the manner in which it is appreciated by the inhabitants of Tetbiuy and the surrounding neighbourhood The Savings Bank is open every Wednesday, from twelve to one, to receive and repay de- posita Interest at the rate of three per cent, is allowed on all monies exceeding a pound, which remain above a year in the Bank. The managers (selected by the Superintending Committee from the neighbouring Clergy and Gentry,) are in 46 ntimber about forty. Two attend every Wed- nesday in rotation. Mr. Francis Brown is the axrtuary. The Tetbuby Dispensaky was established at a meeting held in the Town Hall, on Monday, the 28th of September, 1818 ; Thomas Estcourt, Esq., in the chair. At this meeting the following oflSicers were appointed: President, Thomas Est- court, Esq. Vice-Presidents, George Holford, M.P., Joseph Pitt, M.P., John Paul Paul, Robert Kingscote, John de la Field Phelps, Esqrs., and the Rev. Edmund William Estcourt. Surgeon, Richard Filkin, Esq. Secretary, Mr. James Myles. An annual sermon on behalf of the Dispensary was formerly preached in Tetbury Church. The first was in 1819, by the Hon. and Right Rev. Henry Ryder, Lord Bishop of Gloucester, when £40 6s. was collected In 1828, two silver goblets were presented by the subscribers to the Dispensary to Richard Filkin, Esq., "for his able and gratuitous ser- vices during the several years that had elapsed from the formation of the Institution." A piece of plate, for similar services, was presented by the subscribers to F. R White, Esq., in 1840. In 1853, an arrangement was made, by which it was agreed that it should be left to the option of each patient, to which of the medical gentlemen he or she should apply. Each annual subscriber of a guinea is allowed 47 six tickets ; one of these signed by the subscrir ber. is given to each pa^nt. who carries it to the medical officer, and he, for the small sum of 3a 6d., (the cost of the ticket to the sub- scriber,) suppHe^ the patient with attendance and medicine for eight weeks. If any subscri- l«r wishes for additional tioketo, he L obtain them on the payment of 3s. 6d. for each ticket. This system has been found to answer well, and, during the past year (1854-55,) 160 patients were relieved in this manner.^ 1 It will be seen by the following returns tbat this is the largest number of patients relieved in any one year since the establishment of this Institution. Patients. At the end of the first year 12th of October, 1819, there remained on the books 33 Admitted between 10th of October, 1819, and 12th of October, 1820 119 152 Of which have been cured and relieved • . . 119 Died 2 Bemained on the Books 81 152 In 1853. Remained on the books .... 17 Admitted, Oct. 1852, to Oct. 1853 .... 126 143 48 The income of the Dispensary for the year ending Midsummer, 1855, (including a donation of £15, from Miss Charlotte Estcoiut, of the Priory, Long Newnton,) amounted to £46 6s. 6d The present honorary secretary is Robert Clark Paul, Esq. The Tetbury Institute was established at a meeting held for that purpose on February 16th, 1855, Josiah T. Paul, Esq., in the chair. The object of its institution, as stated in its rules, is "the promotion of the moral and intel- lectual character of its members, by means of — 1st, a Reading Room, — 2nd, a Library, — 3rd, Lectures." The subscribers are of three classes : — L Those who pay a guinea annually have access to the Reading Room^ at all times of its being open. IL Those who pay half-a-guinea annually have access to the room from 5 to 10, p.m. III. All apprentices and mechanics who pay Is. a quarter are admitted from 7 to 10, p.m. The Library, which at present consists of about 200 volumes, is open for the purpose of taking out bodes every Wednesday evening, from 8 to 9. Of which there were cured or relieved . . . 122 Died 4 . . . . 4 Remaining on the books 17 143 49 The niimber of subscribers in the different classes at present (Michaehnas, 1856,) are as follows : — Ist Qass 22 2nd Class 19 3rd Class 30 The officers for 1856 are as follows : President, The Vicar of Tetbury. Vice-Presidents^ T. H. Sotheron Estcourt, Esq., M.P., R. S. Holford, Esq., M.P., E. D. B. Estcourt, Esq., Joseph Wood, Esq., Josiah T. Paul, Esq., and the Rev. Alfred T. Lee. R C. Paul, Esq., is the Hon. Secretary, Mr. George Pride the Librarian. Mr. J. W. Keillor the Hon. Treasurer. The Reading Room is at Mr. Samuel Fowles, in Church Street, where the library is also kept. The income of the Institute for the year ending Lady-day, 1856, was £45 9s. 9^d. The approach to Tetbury from Bath is by means of a bridge erected ax^ross a valley, which was formerly a very dangerous and steep access to the town. It was agreed to be built by a Commission held on Friday, Nov. 4th, 1774,^ at ^ Tlic Commissioners were : I. Henry Duke of Beaufort, (great-grandfather oJf the present Dnke.) 2. Dr. Ilardwick, of Chipping Sodbnry, B 50 the Gross Hands, Old Sodbuiy, and somewhat more than £500 was allowed for that piirpose. Mr. Thomas Webb, of Tetbury, was the ar- chitect ; and the levelling was commenced Nov. 8th, 1774, and the bridge finished in April, 1776. The Wiltshire Bridge, on the east side of the town, is the approach from Malmesbnry. It is situated partly in Gloucestershire and partly in Wiltshire ; and each county keeps in repair the portion belonging to it. The date of its original erection I have not been able to ascertain. The number of voters for the Eastern Division of the County, in virtue of property situated in this parish, was 164 in 1855. At the last con- tested election, in January, 1854, the number of votes for each candidate was as follows : 3. Rev. Dr. Bosworth, of Tortworth. 4. Mr. John Paul, of Tetbuiy. 6. Mr. Robert Clark, of Tetbuiy. 6. Mr. Richard Tugwell, of Tetbuiy. 7. Rev. John Savage, of Tetbury. 8. Mr. Faston, of Horton. 9. Rev. Mr. Bliss, of Tormarion. 10. Mr. Henry Stephens, of Leighterton. 11. Mr. Cowcher, of Didmarton. 12. Rev. Dr. Penny, of Cromhall. 13. Mr. Phillimore, of Dursley. 14. T. Estcourt Creswell, Esq., of Pinkney. 15. Mr. Hicks, of Wickwar. 51 Sir Michael Hicks Beach, Bart. (Conser- vative) 115 Edward Holland, Esq. (Liberal) ... 18 Majority for Sir M. H. Beach. . 97 which shews that the politics of this parish are undeniably Conservative. The Tetbuby Union (which is one of the smaUest in the kingdom,) includes the parishes* of Tetbury, Shipton Moyne, Weston Birt, with Lasborough, Ozleworth, Beverstone, Oldbury- on-the-hill, Didmaxton, Kingscote, Cherington, Newington Bagpath, Boxwell with Leighterton, ' The acreage and population of these parishes in 1851 was as follows : Popnlatloii In No. of Na o' Acres. 1851. OuardUna 1. Tetbury 4582 8325 3 2. Shipton Moyne 2298 403 3. Weston Birt, with Lasborough 1909 234 4. Ozleworth 1114 88 5. Beverstone 2360 199 6. Oldbury-on-the-Hill ... 1342 485 7. Didmarton 719 101 8. Kingscote 1810 297 9. Cherington 1880 220 10. Newington Bagpath . . . 2131 239 11. Boxwell, with Leighterton. . 2266 285 12. Ashley 946 84 13. LongNewnton 2289 294 25,646 6264 15 B* 52 in the county of Gloucester, Ashley and Long Newnton, in the County of Wilts. The Workhouse, which is a large and com- modious building, is situated on Gumpstool Hill ; Mr. D. W. Smith is the master, and also the reUeving oflScer for this union ; William Maskelyne Esq., is the clerk to the Guardians; Mr. John Hole is the parish surgeon. The population of the town has gradually increased since the commencement of the present century. The following are the returns of the number of the inhabitants in every de- cennial period since 1801, when the Census re- turns first commenced.* Tor. PopnlAtion. iUlm. Femaleft. Hooaea. Families. HouM Building. Unin- habited 1801 2500 1153 1347 533 1811 2533 1202 1331 1821 2734 1356 1378 528 580 3 23 1831 2939 1426 1513 554 608 5 50 1841 2982 1467 1515 603 . • 36 1851 3325 1609 1716 674 . 15 6 In 1735 the town appears, according to an old retiun, to have been in a very flourishing condi- tion, the number of its inhabitants was 3115, and the number of families 970; of these 2818 were members of the Church. 235 were Presbyterians, and 38 were Baptists. * These returns are taken from the Census tables published by the authority of Government. 53 The proportion of arable to pastiire land in the parish, at the time of the taking of the tithe apportionment, was as follows : — ARABLE. PASTURB. WOODUlSD. In the Tithing of ^. ^ ,. ^ lu p. a. ». f. Tetbury - - 133 1 28 887 2 5 4 1 29 Charlton- - 500 1 7 503 1 19 30 19 Elmestree > 193 3 3 314 1 19 5 3 28 Upton - - 117 2 22 673 2 7 4 3 22 Doughton - 299 1 16 324 5 2 1244 1 36 2702 3 10 50 3 18 Glebe land in Tetbury - - 6 16 Charlton- - 67 1 20 12 1 12 Exempt from Tithe* in Tetbury - - 27 1 31 226 1 8 1339 1 7 2947 2 36 50 3 18 Total. Arable 1339 1 7 Pasture 2947 2 36 Woodland - - - - 50 3 18 4337 3 21 •The Hamlet of Doughton is situated to the South of Tetbury, about a mile and a half on * This is the Grange Farm. All estates held by Cistercian Abbeys were tithe free. 54 the road to Bath. At the entrance of the vil- lage, is Highgrove, the residence of Walter M. Paul, Esq., the Lord of the Manor. It is a hand- some stone building, surrounded by park-like grounds. It was erected in the years 1796» 1797, and 1798, by John Paul Paul, Esq. Doughton Cottage is the residence of the Rev. Robert Dyer. There are two substantial farm- houses here, the old Manor House formerly the famUy residence of the Talboys, now occupied by Mr. John Elnight, and that in which Mr. Robert Tanner resides. EtiMESTBEE, (the ancient Elmundestree,) is im- mediately beyond Doughton. The present Manor House is a handsome structure, built in the Elizabethan style by William Brookes, Esq., the present Lord of the manor, in 1845. It is situated about half a mile distant from the Bath Road, and is approached by an avenue, at the foot of which there is a lodge. The Hamlet of Upton lies to the N.W. of Tetbury, about a mile distant, on the road to Nailsworth and Stroud. Upton Grove, the property of R S. Holford, Esq., (formerly the residence of the Saunders' family, who built it, and now that of Nathaniel F. Ellison, Esq.,)' is prettily situated on the road to Upton ; it is surrounded by meadow land, in which there are many fine trees. Upton House, the property of Maurice Maskelyne, Esq., in which Lieut.-CoL 2 '^^ 55 Boyds now resides, is a handsome stone building, erected in 1752, by John Cripps, Esq. K S. Holford, Esq., is Lord of the manor. The Hamlet of Chablton lies to the W. of the town, and on the road to Beverstone^ and contiguous to it. It contains but few inhabi- tants ; the principal residents are Edward D. Estcourt, Esq., and Mr. Richard Barber. I shall conclude this chapter with a few words on the derivation of the name of Tetbury. Sir Bobert Atkyns, Rudder, and other His- torians of Gloucestershire, have agreed in the opinion that Tetbury, in the time of the Britains, was called Caer Bladon. This opinion is founded on an obscure passage of Camden, in which he quotes firom the Eulogium Historiarum, as men- tioned in page 4. I cannot but think that the words, "and called it Caer Bladon,*' refer not to Tetbury, but to Malmesbury ; and I am confirmed in this opinion by finding that Taimer. in his Notitia MonoMica, caUs Malmesbuiy by this name, and also Ingelboume. Had the name Caer Bladon applied to Tetbury, its derivation woTild be easily accounted for ; since "Caer," in the language of the Britains, signifies a fortified place, and the River Avon, which rises in this parish, is called by andent British Historians Bladon, or Badon ; so that * Tanner*8 NoUUa Mantutioay under the head of Malmeabiiry. 56 Caer Bladon would signify a fortress on the Eiver Bladon. But this reasoning applies with much greater force to Malmesbury, which was from the first a more important place than Tetbury, and possessed from early times a cele- brated Monastery, and also a Castle, which Castle (says Camden) probably belonged to the Bishop of the West Saxons, and, in all probability, is the place from whence the Charters of Eleutherius to Aldhelm, the Abbot of Malmesbury, are thus dated, ** Actum publico juxta flumen Badon/' Rejecting, then, the opinion that Tetbury was anciently called Caer Bladon, I proceed to in- vestigate the probable origin of the name. When the Saxons overspread the country, they re-chris- tened most of the places which they became possessed of, but this was not universaQy the case. They sometimes tried to call them by the names which the British had bestowed upon them, but in this they generally failed. How- ever, they usually retained a part of the British appellation, to which they added a descriptive t-erm of their own, taken from their own lan- guage ; and thus a name was produced which on other grounds would be diOGicult to account for. Several names in the neighbourhood of Tetbury, may be derived in this manner; thus, •^Tresham" is, obviously, " Tre," British for houses or viQage, and **Ham," the Saxon for enclosure. Cotswold, from " Coed," British for 57 wood, and "wold,'' Saxon for the same. IGngB- cote, "KingV Saxon, because it belonged to the Saxon monarchs, and "coed," wood In the same way, the name of Tetbury may pro- bably be derived. It is not composed simply of Saxon words, and is probably, as in the instances given above, derived partly jfrom the British, partly from the Saxon. Thus, "Tedd" in British, signifies an open space, an expanse, which may, perhaps, apply to the Cotswold Plain, in this direction, and " Bury ^ is the Saxon for a place of some strength ; so that the composite word " Tedd-bury," would signify a fortress in an open plain. And when we remember that in British and Saxon times, and also in that of King Stephen, Tetbury un- doubtedly possessed a Castle, we shall see at once the appropriateness of the name, and the probability of the derivation above mentioned. 58 CHAPTER 11. Account of the Lords of the Manor. I. Teibwjf. — ^Fonner and Present Power of Lords of Manors, — Siward —Roger de Iveri,— The S. Walorick's,— The De Braose's,-— Berke- ley's. S. JD0119AI011.— Earl of Warwick,— De Braose's,— Robert de Doaghton, — De Stonore's, — ^Edward Dnke of York, — Elizabeth Qaeen of Henry VIL,—Talboy*s,— Paul's. 8. C5»ft».— Alnric,— Roger de Iveri, — De Braose's, — Tame's, — Yenkey*s, — HantleyX — Dncie's,— R S. Holford, Esq. 4. CharlUm.—De Braose's,— William de Ballecot,— Mortimer's,— Cicely, Dnchess of York,— R 8. Holford, Esq. 5. Ehiestree.'S. Walerick's,— Westbnry College,--Sir Ralph Sadleir, — ^TheTooke's, — Deacon's, — Jenner's, — ^Brookes*. Lords of the manor had formerly much larger jurisdiction than they have at present. William the Conqueror divided England into thirty thousand baronies, which henceforth were called manors. The present Lords were styled Earls, the lesser Barons ; manors were formerly called baronies, as they are still called lordships, and each Baron was empowered to hold a court baron for redressing grievances within his manor. Itis court fon,4 w- an inaepa«ble p^ of eveiy manor, but since the passmg of 9 & 10 Victoria^ a 95, sec. 14, the Lords of the manor may surrender to the Crown the right 59 of holding such court ; and therefore, in many cases the right to hold it has ceased. In the time of Edward the Confessor, accor- ding to Domesday, Siward was Lord of the manor of Tetbury. Eoger de Oily was a great Mend and warm supporter of WilUam the Con- queror ; on his marriage with Aldith, the only daughter of Wigod de Walengeford, the king bestowed on him large estates, and among others, probably the manor of Tetbury, He and Roger de Iveri, (who at the time of the Domesday siu*- vey, was Lord of Tetbury,) were sworn friends ; and to him it was that Roger de Oily granted that Honour which afterwards came to the S. Walericks', and was called from them the Honour of S. Walerick. This Roger was the son of William de Iveiy, who held one knight's fee in the Bailiwick of Tenechebrai in Normandy, by the service of cup-bearer to the Duke of Normandy, and three other fees in the same liberty, as also eight fees and a half in the Town and Castle of Ivery. Roger de Iveri enjoyed the same honour of cup-bearer to WiUiam, King of England, which his &ther had held whilst he was Duke of Normandy. He married Adeline, eldest daughter of H\igh de Grentmaisnil and Adelidis his wife, and died in 1079, and left a widow, (who had inheri- tance of land in Charlton in O* Wilts, &c.,) and 60 three sons, Roger who sucoeeded him in the barony, and became cup-bearer to the King, Hugh, and Jeffiy, who on the death of his elder brothers, without issue, came into all their possessions. This femily of Ivery was descended fiom one Rodulph, half-brother to Bichard the First, Duke of Normandy, who, killing a monstrous bear, when himting with his brother Duke, was by him, for that service, rewarded with the castle of Ivery, on the river TEvre ; and had from thence the title of Comes de Ibreio.* On the death of the above mentioned Jefiry de Iveri without issue, in 1112, his lands fell into the hands of the King, who soon after bestowed them on Guy de S. Walerick, the father of ReginsJd de S. Walerick, who had been a faithful friend of his, and was now a great favourite with the King.* Soon after this, Beginald de S. Walerick* ' Both Aikjns and Badder spell this name '< Lueri." Bishop Kennett in his Parochial Antiquities, Vol. i, p. 79, speaks of the gro88 mistake made by the author of the Introduction to the old English History, in calling Roger de Iveri by the name of Boger de Lueri. 3 Eennett's Parochial Antiquitieay vol. i., p. 112. ' So called from a port of Normandy of that name. S. Walerick was in 589, made Abbot of a Monastery in that port, by Eong Clothaire. Guy de S. Walerick, the ancestor of this family was a learned advocate of that place, and 61 was Lord of the manor of Hasildene, near Tet- bury. He founded there in 1140, the Cistercian Monastery, which afterwards was removed, from want of water, to Tetbury, and afterwards about 1170, from want of wood, from Tetbury, (with the consent of Bernard de S. Walerick, the son of Reginald,) to Kingswood, where it remained tiU the dissolution of the monasteries. Maud de S. Walerick, the heiress of this family, was married to the great William de Braosa, Lord of Brecknock, son of William de Braosa, and Berta, daughter of Milo de Gloucester, Earl of Hereford ; and grandson of William de Braosa, who came into England with William the Conqueror, and who was an eminent bene- factor to the monks of S. Florence, at Saumares/ married Papia, daughter of Richard II, Duke of Normandj. Rodnlph de S. Walerick, a son of his, came over with William the Conqueror. Reginald de 5. Walerick, founded the Cistercian monastery at Hasildean, which was after- wards removed to Tethury. Bernard de S. Walerick married Adela de Pontieu, heir to the lordship of S. Albine, near Dieppe, in Normandy, and in 1160, founded a Church at Tetbury, and dedicated it to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Thomas de S. Walerick, the last heir male, gave the ad- vowson of the Church at Tetbury to Eynesham Abbey, Oxfordshire in 1196. He died in 1219, and left Eleanor, his only daughter and heiress, married to Robert, Earl of Dreux, in France. — See Sir Robert Atkyns's History of OhucesUTy p. 330. * Dugdale's Baronage^ p. 414. William de Braosa, in addition to his paternal land, inherited large estates from his mother, and also received from King John a grant of part of the lands of Tetburie. He was a personage of great power and influence, in the reign of Henry II. and Eichard I. ; from the former of whom, in the twenty-foxjrth year of his reign, he obtained a grant of the whole kingdom of Limerick, in Ireland, for the service Tbe Anna o( De Braon. of sixty knights' fee, to be held by the King and his younger son John. He gave the King 1 ,000 marks of silver, for his part of the Honor of Barnstaple, in Devonshire. After the accession of King John, be for many years enjoyed the favour of that monarch, and his power and poeseesions were augmented by divers grants from the Crown. But in the tenth year of his reign, when the kingdom lay 63 under an interdict, John deemed it expedient to demand hostages from the Barons to ensure their alliance, should the Pope absolve them from their obedience to the Crown. On the King's o£B[cers coming on this mission to the Baron de Braose, they were met by his wife Maud, who peremptorily informed them, that she would not intrust any of the children to the king, who had so basely murdered his own nephew. Prince Arthur. De Braose rebuked her for speaking thus, but offered, if he had offended the king, to make satis&ction, but refused to gi^e hostages. This answer being communicated to the king, he immediately transmitted an order to seize the Baron's person; but he having received notice of the King's intention, fled with his family to Ireland.* Matthew Paris, who puts his death at 1212, says, "that he fled from Ireland to France, and dying at Ebuk, his body waa carried to Paris, and there honourably buried in the abbey of S. Victor." Matthew of Westminster relates, that in 1210, "the noble lady, Maud, wife of ^ King John went to Karrickfergus in pnrsuit of Maud de Braosa. When he arrived there, Duncan de Carrie, of Gralway, informed him that thej had taken her and her daughter, wife of Roger de Mortimer's son, and her son William de Braosa. King John returned with them to Bristol. — Dugdale's Baronage* 64 William de Braose, with William their son and heir, were miserably fiaanished at Windsore, by the command of King John ; and William, her husband, escaping firom Scorham, put himself into the habit of a beggar, and privately getting beyond sea, died soon after at Paris, where he had burial in the Abbey of S, Victor." These historians differ as to the date of William de Braose's death ; but there can be but little doubt that the facts they relate are substantially correct, as they were nearly his contemporariea It is observed (Dugdale's Baron., p. 418,) that William de Braose, in his usual communication, would reverently use the Name of God, viz. : " In God's name, let this he done ;" or, " if it please God ;" or, " by God^s grace f so likewise, in all the letters that he wrote. Moreover, that in his journeys, whensoever he came into a Chui^^h. or beheld a Cross, though he were then discoursing with another, he would leave off, and betake himself to his devotions ; and, having said his prayers, return to his former discourse. Likewise, when he met any children in the way, he would salute them courteously, to the end he might have a return, with the Benediction of the Innocents. William de Braose,* by his marriage with Maud 6 The seal of William de Braose is affixed, in the year 1301, to the letter from the Barons of £ug1and to Boni&ce YIIL, 65 de S. Walerick had ten sons and five daughters ; William famished with his mother at Windsor ; Giles, Bishop of Hereford, died in 1215 ^; Eegi- nald, Roger, PhiUp, Thomas, Walto:-, John, Henry, and Bernard Maud married Griffiths, Prince of Wales; Berta to William Beauchamp of Elmley, Margery to Walter de Lacy ; Loretta to Bobert Rtz Pemd, Earl of Leicester, and Flandrina.* B^nald married Graecia, daughter and co-heir of WiUiam de Bruere, and died 6 Hen. HI., and had issue, William de Braose, who married Eve, respecting the sovereignty of Scotland. This seal is remarkable both from its containing a very earions reverse, and from the in- flcripiion round it as engraved, being different from what actnallj appears on the seal The legend on the plate is + S: Willi: de: Breotse: Dni: de : Goweb but several words after Gowcr were clearly inscribed, and of which two only are distinct, these are . . Db Brembeb • • The reverse, which is of an oval form, and much smaller than the other seal, contains a lion passant, holding a bird in his paws ; the neck of the lion appears fretted^ and at his feet is a cross moline, but which is not noticed in the engraving. — Archceloffia, vol. xxi., p. 207. ^ Giles de Broase was consecrated Bishop of Hereford Sept. 24th, 1200, (Hoved et Matt. West.) in the Chapel of 6. Catherinei's at Westminster, together with John, Bishop of Norwich. He died at Gloucester, on the Ides of Nov. (13th Nov.,) 1216, (Pat. 17, Johan. M. 12,) and was buried in Hereford CathedraL He was succeeded in the Bishopric by Hugh de Mapenore, Dean of Hereford. (Le Neve's Fasti Eccles. Anffl. p. 468, by T. IX Hardy, 1854. ^ ColUctcmea Oeneahgiea H Topograpkicaj vol. vL p. 58« F 66 daughter of Walter MarescLal, and sister to Richard Mareschal, Earl of Pembroke. This William was invited to an Easter Feast, and treacherously murdered by Leweline, Prince of Wales, being suspected by him of overmuch fiuniliarity with his wife. He left issue, four daughter& Isabel was married — ^first, to David, the son of Leweline, Prince of Wales ; secondly, to Peter Fitz Herbert ; Maud, to Roger, Lord Mortimer of Wigmore ; Eve, to William de Can- tilupe ; Eleanor, to Humphrey de Bohun. In these four daughters, co-heiresses, ended the line of Regindd dX^ We return now to that of his elder brother William, famished at Windsor. He married Maud, daughter of R Earl of Clare, and had issue, John, sumamed Tadody, and Annora. John married Maigaret, daughter of Leweline, Prince of Wales. She survived him, and married secondly, Walter de ClifforA He held the Manor of Tetbury, with markets, fairs, courtleets, waifs and free warren ; and his right was allowed in a writ of qtio warrantOy 15 Edwayrd I. (1287.) When his &ther William died, he was a minor, and he was privately nursed at Gower, by a Welsh woman. His lands were committed to the custody of his imcle Giles, Bishop of Hereford, and ailer his dealh, in 1215, to his unde Reginald. On his coming of age, he gave up all his lands in Wales to his uncle Reginald, and they were 67 finaily divided amongst his four grand-daughters. John de Braose received a summons from the King to defend his own marches against Leweline of Griffin ; and the next year he was ordered to attend the King at Chester. He died at his Castle of Brembre, 16 Hen. III., from a fall from his horse, his foot having caught in the stirrup. By his marriage with Mai^garet Leweline, he had a son William, who married three times — first, Isabel, daughter of Gilbert de Clare, by whom he had WiUiam, his son and heir ; secondly, Agnes, daughter of Nicholas de Molis, by whom he had Giles de Braose, Ent. ; thirdly, Maiy, daughter of William, Lord Bos of Hamlake, and widow of Balph de Cobham, and afterward wife of Thomas of Brotherton, Earl of Norfolk, by whom he had Bichard, Peter, William, and Mai^ret. This William de Braose, in 41 Hen. IIL (1255,) assisted the King against Leweline ap Griffin ; and 42 Hen. III. attended the King at Chester ; in 48 Hen. III. he undertook that the King ^ould stand to the award of Louis IX., King of France, touching the differences between him and the Barons ; in 14 Edward I., having served with the King in Wales, he received scutage* of all his tenants in Surrey, Sussex, ^ Scutage, from Latin scutum^ a shield, whereon thej wore a device or military distinction. All tenants who held from the king by military service, were bound to attend personally in wars and expeditions ; or, in default of personal service, a 68 Wilts, GfUmcesler, and Dorset He died 19 Ed. I. (1291.) and was succeeded by his son, William de Braosb, who greatly distinguished himself in the reign of King Edward I. In the twentynsecond year of the reign of this king, on June 8th, he was summoned to attend the King on afl^rs of state : and in September of the same year he sailed from Portsmouth to Gascoigne on the Eling^s service ; 25 Edw. L, he attended the King to Flanders ; 28 Edw. I., he was in Scotland on the King's service ; 29 Edw. I., he was there again, in the retinue of the Prince of Wales ; 32 Edw. I., he was summoned to Parliament as a Baron. In 14 Edw. II., he sold his lands of Gower. Thomas de Walsingham says of this William, that he waa ** PercHves a parenteld^ sed dissipator substanttof sibi r dicta f" — ^a person of large patrimony, but a great spendthrift. He was summoned to all the Parliaments, from 25 Edw. I, to 16 Edw. III. He died in 1322, when the Barony of Gower fell into abeyance. He married Aliva> daughter of Thomas de Moulton, and had issue, two daughters. Aliva^ married to John de Mowbray, and Joane Kutagt^ or composition tax on ev^ry BciUum mUiUare or knight's fee, and the proportional parts were assessed and levied for the king's use. The barons and knights, when thej paid acutage to the king, had power to levy the same tax of their tenants, who held from them in military service. This power WiDiam de Braose exercised when called upon to support Edward I. in his ^ars as seen above. (See Bp. Kennet's Parooh. Antiq.i in verb.) 69 to John de Bohun, of Midhurst. Hugh de Spenser purchased from Aliva the inheritance of the lord- ahips which her grandmother, Mary daughter of Lord Bos, had for life. The lands so purchased, formed part of the Barony of Brembre. WruAAM JOB Braose, the son of John de Bradse and Isabel de Clare, gave to his half-brother, Peter de Braose> the Manor of Tetbuiy, which he assigned to Agnes, his wife, at the Church porch, and died 5 Edw. II. (1312.) leaving Thomas, his son and heir, and a daughter Beatrix. This Thohaa DjB Bbaose was of great renown in the French and Scottish wars of King Edward He was sum- moned to aU the Parliaments, from 1 6 Edw. III. to 27 Edw. III. He had a grant of a fiur at Tetbuiy, 29 Edw. III. (1356.) He married Beatrix, daughter of Boger de Mortimer, and widow of Edward Plantagenet^ son and heir of Thomas, Earl of Norfolk (a younger son of King Edward L,) and had issue, John^ Thomas and Peter, and two daughters, Elizabeth and Joane; upon each of whom, and the heirs of their respective bodies successively, the Manors of Bidlington, Segwike, and Choreswoiili in Sussex ; Bokham, Meworth, and Brownslep in Surrey ; Maniford in Wilts ; Tethury in Ghucesterakire t and Wirthorp in Yorkshire, were^ entailed, after the death of their mother, by deed under his seal, dated at Boaeham, 46 Edw. HI. Lord Thomas de Braose died in 1361, and was succeeded by his son. 70 John db Braose, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Edward de Montagu, died without issu^ on the 3id of Feb., 41 Edw. III. (1368,) at whidi time he was seized of the Manors of Wir- thorp, in the county of York, and Tetbury in Gloucestershire, which Manors had been settled on him and his wife and the heirs of his body, with reversion to Beatrix, his mother, to whom they accordingly passed His brother Thomas was found his next heir. He survived his mother, and became heir of Tetbury, &a, upcm her death, 7 Back IL (1384.) He also survived his brother Peter and both his sisters, and died without issue, 19 BicL IL (1396.) * The Lady Beatrix, widow of Lord Thomas de Braose, was seized of the Manor (7 Bichard H., 1384.) She died before her son Thomas ; and at his death t^e estates passed to his cousin, Elizabeth, daughter of William Lord Say, who had married — first, John de Falvesley, Lord of Falvesley, in the county of Northampton, and secondly. Lord Heron, of Applynden. Lord Heron died without issue, 30th October, 1404.* Margaret, the widow of Sir John Berkeley, and whose first husband was Sir Thomas de Braose, held in dower the Manor of Tetbiury of > The above particulars respecting the Braose family are to be found in Dugdale's Baronage; The Bolls of Parliament; hica, toL vi. ' See Burke's Extinct and Dormant Peerages^ p. 588, ed. 1846. the jointure of Sir Thomas de Braose, and died seized thereof 23 Henry VI., (1445.)* It was hy thia maxriiige that the Manor (^ Tethuiy . into the hands of the Berkeley fainily. Jambs, fifth Lord Berkeley, married Isabel, daughter of Thomas Mowbray, first Duke of Norfolk. She was the great-great-granddaughter of John de Mowbray ; and Aliva, daughter and co-heir of Lord William de Braose, of Gower, as is shewn by the annexed pedigree.* He was succeeded by his eldest son, WiLLLAM, sixth Lord, created 28th Janiuury, * Caitnd. Inquii. p tnortem, ^3 Heo. III. Marg&reta qun fldt uxor Johaonifi Berkeley, militis defanct. Tettebuiy Manor, Gloncester. * This pedigree shews the connection between the foniiliex of firaooe and Berkeley : 72 1489-90, Maxquess of Berkeley. He was ap- pointed Earl Marshal of England, with limitation totiie heire maJe of his body. He married-fiiBt, Elizabeth, daughter of Reginald, Lord de la Warre ; 2ndly, Jane, daughter of Sir Thomas Strangeways ; and 3rdly, Anne, daughter of John flennesy Lord Dacre; but he died without any surviving issue, in 1491-92, and Ues buried in the Chxirch of the Friar Augustines, near Broad Street, London. He was succeeded by his brother, ,m^n ■ ■__ _MB-- - • ■ ^— ^^^^^^^^^^^^.^ Jomr DB MowBKAT, 9nd BaroD. »> Alita, D. and Coheir of Wm. de He was Sheriff of Yorkshire, and GoTemor of York. He was taken in rebellion against £dw. L, and hanged at York. Braose, Lord Braose, of Gower, (2,) Sir R. Peschale and D. 5 Edw. U. (Borke, p. S77.) JoBir DB MowBKAT, 3rd Baron. » Joav, D. of Henry, £. of Lan- I caster. Jonx DB MowBRAT, 4th Baroo. ■» Euzabbts, D. and H. of John I Lord Segrave, by Margaret, Duchess of Norfolk, D. of Thos. Plaotagenet, of Brotberton, £. of Norfolk. I 1 JoHir DB MowBRJLT, Earl of Not- Thomas, E. of Nottingham, created tingham, d. 1379. D. of Norfolk in 1396, and died 1 400. Elizabeth Fitzalav, S. and Co- heir of Edward, Earl of Arundel. Thomas, Earl Marshal. Maboabbt. Isabbl. James, 6th Lord Bbbxblbt. Leland, in his Itmeranfy vol. vi., p. 67, fol. 71, speaks of Tctbury belon^g to the Mowbrays : '^ Tebbjrie was of later tyines the Moulbrays lande.'^ '^The Lorde Maurice Berkeley lately lyving, had fair landes in Northampton and Notinghamshire, that descended from the Lord Segraye, by heires general, to Berkeley and Moulbray.*' 78 Maubice, seventh Lord, who, from his brother's anger at his having married beneath his station, enjoyed none of the estates^ except those he inherited from his mother, Isabel Mowbray. He resided chiefly at Yate, in Gloucestershire, and died in 1506, and was succeeded by his son, MAUBiOEy eighth Lord, who was made a Elnight of the Bath, at the coronation of Henry VIII. ; and in the seventh and eiirhth yeaiB of that Mo»«ch'» «ign. ^ High^heriff of Glov.«,t«^ shire, and was afterwards appointed Lieutenant of the Castle of Calaia He married Catherine, daughter of Sir William Berkeley, of Stoke Gifford, Enight, but died at Calais in 1523, without issue, and was succeeded by his brother, Thomas, ninth Lord, who held a command in the celebrated battle of Flodden Field (Sept 9th, 1513) ; and for his signal services there, received the honour of knighthood fix>m Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey, who commanded the army. He married — first, Eleanor, daughter of Sir Marma- duke Constable, of Flamborough, Yorkshire ; and secondly, Cecilia, widow of Bichard Bowden, Esq. He was succeeded by his son, Thomas, tenth Lord, who married — ^first, Mary, daughter of George Hastings, first Earl of Htm- tingdon ; and secondly, Anne, daughter of Sir John Savage, of Frodsham, in Cheshire. He died 19th Sept., 1534, and was succeeded by his son, Henby, eleventh Lord. He was Lord-Lieut. 74 of Glouoestershire, and married — ^fiiBt, Catherine, daughter of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey ; and secondly, Jane, daughter of Sir Michael Stanhope. By his first wife he had issue, Thomas and Ferdinand. Thomas married Elizabeth, only daughter of Sir George Carey, afterwards Lord Hunsdon, and had issue, George, 12th Lord, and Theophilus. Thomas died in the lifetime of his father. Henry, Lord Berkeley, died in 1613, and was buried in the family vatdt at Berkeley, and was succeeded by his grandson, Geobge, twelfth Lord. He was made Knight of the Bath at the creation of Charles Prince of Wales, (afterwards Charles I.,) on Nov. 4th, 1616. He married Elizabeth, daughter and co- heir of Sir Michael Stanhope, in Sudbury, SuflPolk, and died 10th August, 1658.* It was this Lord Berkeley, who ia 1632 sold the Manor of Tetbury, with the Warren, or North Hayes, and the Lordship thereof, " and all their lands, and tenements, and hereditaments, within the Manor and parish of Tetbury." to Richard Talboys, John Gastrell, Richard Box, and Toby Chapman, the then Feoffees of the town for the sum of £840. The fairs, markets, and waste lands in the borough of Tetbury, were bought in 1640, of ^ All the Lords Berkeley mentioned in the text were Lords of the Manor of Tetbury. 75 Jolin Smith, of North Nibley ; John Browning, of Cowley ; Stephen Fowler, of Stonehouse ; and Christopher Pamell, of North Nibley ; for £1,400. Since this period, the Feoffees have been the Lords of the Manor. The Manob of Doughton. This Manor formerly belonged to the Beau- champs, Earl of Warwick ; but Peter de Braose had free warren in Doughton, 29 Ed. P (1301.) Nine years after, the jury found that John de Thomdon obtained £14 rent in Upton, Doughton, and Tetbury/ from William de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, whose great-grandfather, William de Beauchamp had it in dower with Berta, daughter of WiUiam de Braosa. Temp, Ed. II., Eobert de Doughtcm gave to John de Stonore and his heirs, a stable, a cellar, and a dovecote, with a messuage and a carucate of land in Doughton.' Edward III. and Bichard IL, his grandson « Bot. IaL Claita. 29 Ed. i. Petor de Braose was a K. 6., 11 Ed. iii., 1347. (See ArchofoiogicOj vol. xzzi., p. 123.) ^ CalentL Inquis. past morUm^ toI. i., p. 204. ^ Abhrtv. Flaeit.j p. 348. Ed. U., Bobertus de Doughton pro eartam suam dat dno. John de Stonore miles et heredibus snis, nnum stabulum, unam cameram, et unam columbarium cum j mess, et j carr. terrsB in Doughton. (Boi, 180.) 76 gave six tenements in Doughton and Charlton^ to Edmund Langley, Duke of York.' In 8 Edward III., a suit ensued between John de Stonore, plaintiff and Hugh de Hamhule, defendant, for twenty-four messuages and lands in Doughton, Tetbury, and Henbury. John, son and heir of Edward de Stonore, died seized of these lands in Doughton, Sec., leaving Bichard, his son and heir. He was suc- ceeded by Ralph de Stonore, who hdid his lands of Thomas de Braose, leaving Gilbert de Stonore» his son and heir.^ (1416.) Edmund, Duke of York, died seized of six tenements in Doughton and Charlton. Edward Duke of York, his son and heir^ by lioense of King Henry TV., long before his death, mort- gaged the Manor of Doughton to Henry, Bishop of Winchester, which Manor was worth forty shillings or more, because divers immunities were granted firom hence to different persons by this Duke. Gilbert de Stonore left Thomas, his bro^ ther, heir to his Doughton estate. An act passed in the reign of Heniy VIL for resuming the possessions of Edward Langley, Duke of York, in Charlton and Doughton ; and these two estates » Pari 1 1 Hen. VH. > Gilberttts de Stonore fir Bad'i de Stonore ten. Doughton terr 'et ten' Tetteburje. (Oaiend. Inqma, past mortem^ 3 Hen. Y.^ No. 34.) 77 were granted to Elizabeth of York, Queen of Henry VII., in dower (1 1 Henry VII.) In 1591 (33 Eliz.,) John and Edward Seed bought this Manor of Thomas Cripps, of Bar* rowcombe, Wiltshire ; and Greorge Staples, of York, Gloucestershire. On the 20th January, 1627, Bichard Talboys, Esq., descended from the Talboys of Whiston, in Wiltshire, bought this Manor (which appears to have been granted by letters patent from Queen Elizabeth,) of Edward Alehome, Clerk, and Anne his wife.* Mr. Talboys had previously, in 1623, bought land in the same place, from John Hooper. He was High-Sheriff of Glouces- tershire in 1653, and died on the 3rd August^ 1668, a^ed 87 yeara He was succeeded by his eon. B^in. who married Alice, daughti of Sylvester Grarrard, Esq., of Broadtown, Wilt- shire. They had two sons — ^Bichard, who in 1688 was Lord of the Manor, and Benjamin. This Bichard Talboys had an only child, Alice ; and in 1 729 he devised this estate to his nephew, Thomas^ son of his brother Benjamin. This Thomas died in 1765, and left the estate to his kinsman, Thomas, son of Charles Talboys. He was succeeded in 1802 by his son Thomas, who in 1818 sold the Manor to John Paul Paul, Esq,, of Ashton Keynes, for £25,000. Mr. Paul, > TUU Deed9. 78 who was High-Sheriff for Wilts in 1807, and had been created an Hon. D.C.L. of Oxford, on the 22nd of June, 1814 ; died in 1828 ; and was succeeded by his eldest surviving son, Walter Matthews Paul, Esq., the present Lord of the Manor. Manor of Upton. According to Domesday, Aluric held the Manor of Upton in the reign of Edward the Confessor. Roger de Iveri held it in that of William the Conqueror. In 47 Henry HI. (1263.) Upton was held of Richard, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford. Peter de Braose had free warren here of Edward I., (1381.)» ' Calaid. Inqttis* post mortem^ roL i., p. 24o. Free warren was a franchise erected for preservation or custody of beasts, or fowls of warren, which being ferae naturce every one bad a natural right to kill as he could ; but upon the introduction of the Forest Laws at the Norman Conquest, these animals being looked upon as Royal game, and the sole property of the Sovereign, this franchise of free toarren was invented to protect them, by giving the grantee a sole and exclusive power of killing such game so Beur as his warren extended, on condi- tion of his preventing other persons. The beasts so protected were hares, conies, and roes ; the fowls were either campestres^ as partridges, rails, and quails, or eylveetreej as woodcocks and pheasants, or aquatUee^ as mallards, and herons. (Blackstone's Comment,^ vol. ii., p. 38.) 79 Greorge Braose was seized of Upton, 6 Henry V. (1419.) In 36 Heniy VIIL (1545.) the lands of God- stow Nunnery in Charlton, Upton, Doughton and Tetbury were parcelled out between Sir Edmund Tame, who paid 21s. 4d rent for his portion ; Lord Berkeley, who paid 8s. ; Bobert Wye, who paid 12a ; and Thomas Wilkins, who paid 12s.* Sir Edmund Tame* died seized of the Manor of Upton, and left three sisters, co-heiresses ; Alice, Margaret and Isabella. Alice married Sir Thomas Vemey, who, in her rights was seized of a third part of Sir Edmund Tame's estates. BiCHARD Vbrney, son and heir of Sir Thomas Vemey, died 26th July, 1667 (9 Eliz.) seized (as appears by the inquisition taken at Gloucester after his death,) of the entire Manor of Upton. George, the son of Richard Vemey, died « HarL MSS., 5,013. * He was High-SherifF of Gloucestershire in 1536 and 1541. The family is thus mentioned by Leland {Itinerary^ vol. vi., p. 16): *^The elder house of the Tames is at Stowel, by Northleche, in Gloucestershire. Syr Edward Tame, of Fair- forde, up by Crekelade, came oute of the house of Tame, of Stowel. Tame that is now at Fairford, hath be married a zit. yere, and hath no childe. Wherefore be likelihood Syr Humfre Stafford, son to old Staford, of Northamptonshire, is like to have the landes of Tame of Fairforde. For he maried his aster. And so the name of the Tames is like sore to decay." 80 smed of Upton, 16 Eliz. (1574,) leaving by his 'wife Jane, daughter of Sir Thomas Lucye, a son and heir, Richard, who was but ten years old at iuB father^s death. This Bichard Yemey became a veiy eminent person, and was Knight of the Shire for the County of Warwick in 31, 35, 39, 43 of EUz. and 1 Jac. L George and Constance Huntley purdiased the Manor of Upton and held it 42 Eliz. (1600.) Upton Farm passed to Henry, Lord Berkeley, in right of the Braose's. In 1606, Bichard Cole of Woodchester sold Upton, with the Grove, to Sir George Huntley. This Sir George Huntley had previously enter- tained Queen Elizabeth at Frocester Court, on her way to Berkeley Castle. This manor was shortly after sold to Sir Bobert Ducie, as appears from a special Uvery granted 2 Car. L (1626,) by Lord Cottington, "Master of BBs Highness' Courte of Wards and Liveries,* and Sir Benjamin Budierd, Knt., Siuveyor of said liveries," to Sir Bichard Ducie, son and heir of Sir Bobt. Ducie, Sheriff of London in « This Court was ioslitttled by statute 32 Hen. Vm., c. 46> to inquire of what lands any one of the Ejiig*B tenants had died seized of; who was his heir, and of what age. It was abolished at the restoration oi Charles II., together with the oppreasiye tenures on which it was founded. (Blackslone's Conmunti vol. iii., p. 258.) 81 1620, that the manors of Upton and Charlton formed part of the possessions of the late Sir Robert Ducie. In this deed the Manor of Upton is mentioned as containing "one bam and forty acres of pasturage ;" and the Manor of Charleton is spoken of as " Manor de Charleton, als Char- leton juxta Tedbury, als Tedburye Charlton.** Both manors remained in the Dude family till sold in 1844, to R. S. Holford, Esq,, the present Lord of the Manor, Manor of Charlton. William de Braose gave to Annora^ his daugh* ter,^ 100 shillings, land in Cherleton and Cheriton for maintenance during her widowhood, which lands she gave to Godstow nimnery. William de Ballecot held six yard lands in Cherlington and Tetbury, 33 Edward I. (1305.) Another William de Ballecot died seized thereof 20 Edward IIL (1347.) The manor afterwards belonged to the Mortimers. ^ She was married to Hugh de Mortimer; and her brother having offended the king, she obtained a grant of his lands. Hugh de Mortimer died 2 Hen. lU., (1227.) upon whose death his lands were seized bj Peter Fitz Herbert, as appears from the following extract from Testa de Neml^ fol. 358, p. 77 ; «* Fetrus Fil' Herbi tenet Tetebir que fecit W. de Braus, de dono. R.'' (See also Dugdale's Monasi. i., 56-7.) 82 Edward de Mortimer, Earl of March and Ulster, was seized of a yearly rent of 41s. issuing out of Charleton, a member of the Manor of Tetbuiy, 5 Eichard III. (1382.) He died seized of this manor, 3 Henry VI. (1425.) It was presented to Cicely, Duchess of York, for her life,* 38 Henry II. (1460), and was con- firmed to her 1 Edward IV. (1461.) This Manor was afterwards made part of the dowry of Catherine, Queen Dowager of Henry VIII. On her death it was granted to Drew Drury and Edward Downing, 6 Eliz. (1564.) George and Constance Huntley purchased the Manors of Upton and Charleton, and held them 42 Eliz. (1600.) In 1630 (5 Charles I.) Matthew Himtley sold the Manor of Charlton to Robert Ducie, Mr. Ducie was Sheriff of London in 1620, and was created a Baronet, 28th Nov., 1629, and in 1631 he was Lord Mayor. He accumulated * She was the youngest daughter of Ralph, Earl of West- moreland, and Joan his wife, and was married to Richard, Duke of York, who was killed in an ambuscade near Wake- field, Dec 31st, 1460 ; by him she had a fiunilj of eight sons and four daughters, the two eldest of whom, Edward and Richard, were successively Kings of England, under the titles of Edward IY. and Richabd m. The Duchess Cicely died at Berkhampstead, May 31, 1496, and was buried under a handsome shrine, on the West side of the high altar of the Collegiate Church of Fotheringhay, Northamptonshire. — Annals 0f England^ vol. ii., p. 67-69. 83 enormous wealth ; and although he lost £80,000 by Charles I., whose banker he was previous to the breaking out of the Rebellion, he died worth £400,000. He was succeeded by his eldest son, Bichard, who died, immarried, in 1656, and was succeeded by his brother, William, third Baronet, who was created Viscoimt Downe, in the peerage of Ireland, and made a KB. at the coronation of Charles IT. He married Frances, daughter of Lord Seymour, of Trowbridge, but died without issue, when his honom^ became extinct, and his estates descended to Elizabeth, only daughter of his yoimger brother Bobert. She married Edward Moreton, Esq., of Moreton, County Stafford, and had issue, a son, Matthew Ducie Moreton, Esq., who, on 2nd June, 1720, was created Baron Ducie, of Moreton. Lord Ducie married Arabella daughter and co-heir of Sir Thomas Prestwick, Bart, and had issue, a son, Matthew, second Baron, who was created, 23rd April, 1763, Baron Ducie of TortwortL He died, unmarried, in Dec, 1770, and was succeeded by his nephew, Thomas Reynolds, who, in 1771, assumed the name and arms of Moreton. He married, 20th Feb., 1774, Margaret, daughter of Sir John Bamsden, Bart., of Byron, County York, and died without issue, 11th Sept., 1785, and was succeeded by his brother Francis, as third Baron, who likewise assumed the name of Moreton. He 84 married Maiy, daughter of T. Purvis, Esq., of Shepton Mallett, Somerset, and died in August^ 1808, and was succeeded by his son Thomas, who was created Earl Ducie and Baron Moreton, on 28th January, 1837. He died 22nd Jan., 1840, and was succeeded by his son, Henry Francis George, fifth Baron, who, on 24th August, 1844, sold the Manor of Charlton to Bobert Stayner Holford, Esq., of Weston Birt, who is the present Lord of the Manor. Manor of Elhestree. Beoinald de S. Walerick, in the reign of King Stephen, gave the Manor of Elymundestre to the Monks of the Benedictine Abbey of S. Ebrulph, in Normandy.* Alien Monasteries being deprived of their estates in England, by Act of Parliament, temp, Edward lY., that King, in the tenth year of his reign (1465.) granted this Manor to Henry Sampson, Dean of Westbury College, near Bristol, and to ^ This Monastery was built bj one Ebrulf, in the reign of King Glothaire L, in 578 a.d. ; and being almost destroyed by the wars, was restored by Bobert de Grentesmaisnil, and Hugh his brother, (the father of the wife of Roger de Iveri.) The latter made many grants of land in England to this Monastery. (Bishop Kennett*s Paroch. Antiq. ; see also Budge's Gloucester' ihirtj p. 362, and Buddeti p. 731.) 85 the Chapter of the same, to whom it belonged till the dissolution of the Monasteries, at which time the revenues of the College amounted to £232 14s. yearly. In 1544 (35 Henry VIII.,) all the land be- longing to this College, including Elmestree, were granted to Sir Kalph Sadleir.' He paid for this Manor 24s. rent. Afterwards the Manor passed into the hands of the Tookes', (John Tooke, Esq., of Elmestree, died in 1662,) and thence to the Deacons. Thomas Deacon, of London, married Mary, daughter of Thomas Haynes, a merchant, of Bristol She survived him, and died in 1769, and left the ' Sir Ralph Sadleir was a person of considerable eminence in the reign of Henry YUI., Edward VI., and Queen Elizabeth. He was Grentleman of the Privy Chamber in 1537 ; afterwards secretary to Thomas Cromwell. In 30 Hen. Vm., he was Secretary of State. Knight, 1540. Treasurer of the War against Scotland, 1544. Ambassador to James Y. of France, 1537. Edward VI. made him Knight Banneret at Maskel- borowe Field. 10 Eliz. (1568,) he was appointed Chan- cellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. He was also made Gover- nor of Berwick, and joined with Sir William Pelham and Sii Henry NeviU, in commission for the custody of Mary Queen of Scots. He died in the 80th year of his age (1587.) 29 Elizabeth, and is buried in Standon Church. He left a son, (Sir) Thomas Sadleir, who left a son, (Sir) Ralph, and a daughter Gertrude. Ralph died s. p., and Gertrude married Sir William Aston, of Toxal, in Staffordshire. {StaU Papers, Rudder, p. 800.) 86 Manor to Thomas Jenner, Esq., Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, and Rev. Robert Jenner, of Christ's Church, Oxford. They sold it on October 11th, 1790, to William Brookes, Esq., who died 21st March, 1825, and was succeeded by his son Joseph, who died 13th August, 1832, and was succeeded by his son William, the present Lord of the Manor. The Grange. The S. Walericks granted the Grange to Kings- wood Abbey. It remained in their possession till the dissolution of the Monasteries, when it was granted by Henry VIII., in the thirtynsixth year of his reign, to Richard Andrews and Thomas HyMey.* It was aAerwaxda for maixy generations the property of the GrastreUs, who long resided there. It afterwards passed to the Fishers ; and is now the property of Mr. Samuel Byam, of Willesley. It is at present in the occupation of Mr. William TiE The house and the estate are tithe free. There was an old Chapel here, but it has fidlen entirely to decay. See Atkyns's History of Oloucestenhire, p. 375. 87 CHAPTER III. History of the Monasteries and Churches. Ancient Saxon Monastery, — Cistercian Monastery Founded 1140, — History of its Foundation and Progress, — Removed to Kingswood, — Church Founded by Bernard de S. Walerick, — Account of Old Parish Church, — Chantries in it, — Deed of Arbitration for its Repair, — Pulled Down in 1777, — Circumstances attending the Rebuilding of the Parish Church, — ^Description of it, — St, Saviour's Chapel of Ease, — Particulars respecting the Advowson, the Vicarage, and the Impro- priate Rectory,— Account of Rev. John Wight, — Extracts from Parish Registers and Church Wardens' Books. There can be but Kttle doubt, from a statement of Dugdale's/ that a Monastery existed here some time before the Conquest. By whom founded, or to what order it belonged, it is now impossible to ascertain ; but among the donations to the Abbey of Malmesbury, recorded by him, mention is made in a charter of King Ethelred. to Aldhelm, the Abbot, of the gift of fifteen cassates of land, which land is said to be situated " juxta Tettan Monasterium f and in the con- firmation both of the deed and gift, it is said to be "juxta Tetteburie/' * This shews that a ' MonoBtf vol. i., p. 811. ^ The original charier is given in the ^* Appendix." 88 religious House existed here in the time of the Saxons, but no further record now remains of it. A more authentic account of the history of the Monastery of Cistercian Monks which for- merly existed here, is fortunately ascertainable, but its history is so intimately connected with that of Eingswood Abbey, that it will be necessary in the first place to give a short account of the origin of that Monastery. In the year of our Lord 1131 (31 Henry I.,) Walter de Clare foimded an Abbey of Cistercian Monks at Tyntem, in Monmouthshire, and dedi- cated it to the Virgin Mary. This Convent being desirous of enlarging their order, applied them- selves to William de Berkele,* (or Berkeley,) with a petition to found a Cistercian Abbey at Kingswoode, in the County of Wilts, of which he was then proprietor. William de Berkele yielded to thar request, and founded and endowed a Monastery at Ejngswoode, to the honour of the Blessed Virgin, in the year 1139, which was partly supplied with Monks from Tyntem ; and his grant was confirmed by a charter fix)m Maud, the Empress, the daughter of King Henry I. ' He was son of Roger de Berkele, a leading Chief in the army of William the Conqueror, when he invaded England. In the 20th year of hiB reign (1086), he is styled <' RogeruB Senior de Berkele," from the possession of Berkeley Castle in the county of Gloucester. Burke's Extinct Peerage, p. 49, ed. 184P. 89 The wars which afterwards broke out, between King Stephen and the Empress Maud, gave the Monks at Eangswoode great uneasiness ; and they determined to remove to a more retired situation. They accordingly purchased some pro- perty at Hasildene, (now a hamlet of Eodmarton, in this county,) of one, John de S. John, to whom King Stephen, during the wars, had made a grant of it, although the lands belonged of right to Eeginald de S. Walerick, Lord of the Manor of Tetteburie, who had taken part with Maud. When the war was over, aad everything was restored .to its rightful owners, Beginald de S. Walerick ejected the Monks, and repossessed himself of Haseldene. The Monks, thus ejected, made perpetual complaints to Beginald de S. Walerick, of the injury he had done them ; and by thdr importunity, at length so for prevailed with him, as to induce him to restore Hasildene, and bestow on them more lands, if they would transfer Kingswoode Abbey thither;* for he told ^ The following particulars are given by Leiand. — Itinerary^ ▼ol. vi., p. 41. £d. Oxon, 1744 : Ex libro Donationum Monaster, de Kingeswod. Gul. de Barkelej dedit Abbatise de Unteme, Kinggeswood, ad fiindandum ibi Abbatiam. mi de Eiogeswood ememnt Haseldene a Dno de S. Joanne, cm rex banc terram tempore hoBtiHtaiis, nam erat Reginald! de S. Walerico. Reginaldus de S. Walerico suis restitutus terris abegit 90 them that he waa obliged, by a penance enjoined him by the Pope, to found an Abbey of the Cistercian order. To this proposal, the monks 80 far agreed, as to consent to divide their society : one moiety of the religious were to stay at Kingswoode, and the Abbot, with the rest, were to remove to Hasildene. They had not long been settled at Hasildene, when they foimd themselves much inconvenienced from want of water, of which there was a great scarcity ; so at the suggestion of Reginald de S. Walerick, they removed to Tetteburie, where he generously bestowed some lands upon them, near which was a perennial spring,* which would never fiail to supply them with water. This removal of the monks from Kingswode, give great offence to Roger de Berkele (heir to Monacbos de Haseldene. Postea autem recepit eos, et pars major conventus de Kinggeswood, translata est ad Haselden. Postea propter aqne penuriam Reg. de S. Walerico transtulit eos ad Haselden ad TettebjrL Bogerus Barkeley' filius Gul. Berkeley conabatur aut re- ducere Monacbos de Tettebjri ad Kingeswood aut Kingswood eis auferre tanquam suum fundum. Bamardus de S. Walerico fundator ecclesise de Tettebjri eunt Mireford prope Kingeswood & Bogero Barkelej, et eo quia Tettebjrie ligni copia carebat monacbos transtulet. Beg. Berkeley dedit manerium suum de Acholte Monastem, S. MarisB de Eangeswood. Henricns Loyel. Testis. * Tbis WAS probably tbe spring in Magdalen meadow. 91 the before-mentioned William,) and he forthwith drew up a remonstrance of this affair, and presented it to the King, complaming of the injury done to his &ther's foundation, setting forth that Eingswode was lefb to him by his predecessor as a noted Abbey, but that it was only held as a Grang^e to Tetteburie, the main W^ of the ..r^haviog „.„ved thither ; and he insisted that either he might have his land again, or the monks be recalled and settled once more at Eingswoode. The Eang thought this reasonable, and yielded to his request; but by the interposition of the General Chapter of the Cistemans, the King was induced to revoke his order, and it was determined that Eingswode should remain a Grange to Tetteburie, but that the mass should be constantly read at ElingB- wode, by some monk that was a Priest, at the proper Altar deputed for that purpose ; and the monks,^ in order to make matters easy, com- poimded with Roger de Berkele, to give him twenty-seven marks and a half of silver, and * It maj be interesting to my readers to know in what cos- tume the Cistercian Monks were accustomed to tread the streets of Tetbury. The usual habit was a white robe, in the nature of a cassock, with a black scapubir hood; this garment was girt with a black girdle of wool. In the Choir thej had over it a hood with a rochet hanging down round before to the waist, and in a point behind to the calf. When thej went abroad, they wore a cowl and a great hood, all black, which was also 92 one mark to his sod, (in all £19,) and thereupon Boger de Berkele, by his charter, ratified the compact, and confirmed to them his father's gift. Affidrs being in this state, a Convocation was held at Eirchstede, in Lincolnshire, in the Cister-^ dan Abbey there. Many Abbots were present^ among the rest Philip, Abbot of Elemosyne, Henry, Abbot of Waverley,^ and Pagan, Abbot of Tette- buria After the debates respecting the affairs for which they were met were ended, the Abbot of Waverley proposed to restore the Abbey at Kingswode, and replace a sufficient number of monks in it ; to which the Abbot of Tetteburie, being a weak man,* gave his consent ; but without the Choir habit The laj brothers were clad in dark colour ; their scapular being down about a foot in length before, and was rounded at the bottom. Their hood was like those which the priests wore over their cowl, excepting the difPerenoe of the colour. In the Choir they wore a cloak or mantle, reaching to the ground, of the same colour as the habit. The novices who were Clerks, wore the same habit in the Church, but it was all white. Their scapular was not of the same length in all places, for sometimes it reached only half way down the thigh, in others to the mid-leg, or even to the heels. — BriUak Monachism^ hj F. D. Fosbrooke, p. 287. Natali, 1843. ^ Waverley was a Cistercian Abbey in Surrey, near Famham, founded by William Gi&rd, Bbhop of Winchester, a.d. 1128. It was the first house the Cistercians had in England. * Dugdale speaks of *^ Paganus, Abbas de Tetteburia," as < This meeting was held June 22, 1729, and the names of the parishioners present were, Francis Savage, Bev. Henry Wight- wick, Ber. Robert Winch, John Sloper, Thomas Keen, Joseph Wickes, Richard Harding, William Tomkinson, John Johnston, Henry Crowther, Daniel Evans, John Wight, John Pumell, John Barrett, John Philips, Barnard Wickes. * For a copy of -ibis Brief, see Appendix. 103 Advowson of the Living should be sold, this was strongly objected to by other Parishioners, but the Feoffees persevered, and applied to Parliament, and brought a petition to the House of Lords, in which they asked for an Act of Parliament to enable them to rebuild their ChurcL This was warmly opposed in the House by the opposite party ; who, to obtain their end, engaged to repair the Church in a strong and substantial manner with the money collected imder the brief. This proposal was accepted by the other party with great reluctance, as likely to lead hereafter to further litigation. A recognizance was accordingly entered into in the Court of Chanceiy. in which sevei^ persons of known property,* obliged themselves under con- siderable penalties, to put the Church in sound repair. Two architects were engaged to view the repairs when finished; Mr. Tully, of Bristol, on the one side, and Mr. Smith, of Warwick, on the other. On their viewing the work after its accomplish- ment, they disagreed, and chose Mr. Gibbs, the famous architect, as umpire. He took with him ^Bj Thomas Estcourt, Esq., of Shipton Moyne, William Savage, Richard Harding, Charles Savage, and Joseph Ralph, of Tetbury, and John Taylor of Bristol, before Robert Holford, Esq., and William Kinaston, Esq., two Masters of the Court of Chancery, on lOth February, 1740. The amount of the re- cognizance was £4,000. 104 Mr. Philipps, the King's carpenter, and Mr. John Townsend, an eminent master builder fipom Oxford. They all inspected the Church, and Mr. Gibbs cer- tified that the repairs were not executed in the manner required by the recofmizance. Upon ab. thoi P^dnoiTwho ™hed fcr a new Church brought the matter before the Lord Chancellor ; but it appearing that Mr. Gibbs» had not in person viewed the roof, ^ as, indeed, he could not well, being a person in years, and very cor- pulent,*' but had depended on the report of Mr. Philipps, and Mr. Townsend, the Lord Chan- cellor, to the great surprise of many, ordered another siurey to be taken, and recommended Mr. Flitcroft, to the acceptance of both parties. After making his surv^, Mr. Flitcroft certified that the Church was not put into that good condition required by the recognizance, and that it would require at least £400 more to do it. These repairs were forthwith ordered to be done, but only £15 or £20 were laid out upon them. Under these drcomstaiices. the a^ waa again earned before the Lord Chancellor ; but after some time the pro- meters finding there was no hope of maJdng their Chiffch more commodious, or obtaining a new one by these proceedings, they desisted from aU further litigation.* ^The abore particnlars are chiefly taken from a MS. in the handwriting of the Rev. J. Wight. lOo Being thus disappointed in their hopes of re- building their Parish Church, the Vicar (the Eev. John Wight), and many of the inhabitants deter- mined to rebuild it, by another method which seemed open to them. There was a Church House which had been leased out by the Church Wardens for many gene- rations, for their lives, for about £40 a year ; but which, through the n^ligence of the lessee, had been suffered to fall in. This house was forthwith offered to the best bidder and sold for £250, which was at once put out to interest at four per cent. Money was thus accumidating every day, and the Vicar, in 1 753, generously offered the Parishioners to make the sum £1,000 if they would expend it upon rebuilding the Church, upon a plan he himself should approve. This proposition was accepted by all present at the meeting where it was pro- posed,* and the Parishioners also agreed to encou- rage subscriptions, and in every other way in their power forward the design. The Parishioners in general now seemed fully alive to the necessity of rebuilding their parish Church, and many of them formed themselves into a society for the purpose of collecting subscriptions. The Rules by which they bound themselves are curious, and as they are excellent of their kind, I have subjoined them. They are as follows : — « Held NoYember 12, 1753. 106 ''We, whose names are entered in this book, agree to observe the following artides : i First To meet four times in every year at the White Hart, viz. : The first Thursday in January, the first in April, the first in July, and the fiiBt in October, between six and seven o'clock in the evening. ii. Secondly. Each of us to lay down half-a-crown, as soon as he comes into the room, to be ap- plied towards rebuilding our parish church. iii. Thirdly. To do all we can to increase the number of our society. iv. Fourthly. When any dispute arises amongst us, to submit to the decision of the majority of the members present. V. Fifthly. To send three shillings to be put in the box, every time we cannot attend at the usual time of meeting. vi Sixthly. Gratefully to accept any present, be it never so small, that shall be given to the box by any person that shall not be a member of this society." JoHK Wight. John Slopbb. T. Cboomb Wickbs. Bobt. Clabk. Habrt Witts. Saiil. Sauitdebs. Nathanubl Saundbbs. Josbph Butlbb. BiCHABD Davibs. Johk Faul. Jambs Sataob. Gbobgb Whttb. Nath. Body. WnuAM Bbookes. J. Pubtbb. Thomas Pikb. Oeobge WnrrB. Edwabd Tuoweu^ &c. In all nineiy-ihree* 107 The first meeting was held on January 3rd, 1754, at which time there were 160 members belonging to the society ; and the sum collected on that evening amounted to £26 4s. 6d. The sum total collected by means of this society, amoimted to £535 6s. 4d., which shows how much may be done in the way of Church building firom small beginnings, if only persevered in with energy and determination. In 1765 (5 George III.) an Act of Parliament was obtained "for applying a certain sum of money firom the sale of a house in Tetbury, in the County of Gloucester, and by donations of several persons, for rebuilding the parish Church and Chancel of Tetbury aforesaid.^' The trustees appointed by this Act of Parlia- ment to superintend the rebuilding of the Church were "The Right Reverend lather in God, Wil- liam (Warburton) Lord Bishop of Gloucester, James (Johnson) Lord Bishop of Worcester, the Rev. Thomas Croome Wickes, d.d., the Rev. John Wight, Vicar of Tetbuiy, Samuel Saunders, and John Saunders^ both of Tetbury, gentlemen, and Joseph Butler, of Horsley, gentleman ;" three of whom were to form a quorum. The rebuilding of the Church commenced in 1777, under the superintendence of Francis Hiome, of Warwick, architect, and it was re- opened for Divine service on the 7th October, 1781, when the Rev. T. C. Wickes, D.i>„ the 108 then Vicax, preached Mr. Wight, who had so greatly promoted the rebuilding of the Church, unhappily did not survive to see the restoration complete, he having died on November 24, 1777. Mr. Hiome received for his work from the trustees . . £3658 16 1 In addition to the materials of the old Church, for which he allowed . 400 Received for flooring and pewing it . 1000 17 Makmg the total cost of the Church £5059 13 From the exterior, the Church presents a very handsome appearance, and the noble tower and spire makes it a conspicuous and beautifril object in the scenery for many miles round. We cannot say so much for the interior ; by a curious arrange- ment, we believe peculiar to this Church, doors are placed at equal distances down the North and South Cloisters, each door giving an entrance to five pews, and thus making the collection of alms by the Churchwardens, a long and somewhat difficult process. Although the internal arrange- ment's of the Church have but little respect to Ecclesiastical order, it must still be regarded as a great advance on the style of Church archi- tecture, which was mostly prevalent in this country at the time when this Church was erected. The Chancel is very short, and is raised by two steps above the body of the Church. On the North side is a handsome marble monument 109 to the memory of Sir WiUiam Romsey, with his effigy above, erected at the expense of the Rev. John Wight ; and on the South side, a some- what similar one to the Rev. John Savage, late Rector of Beverstone. Over the Altar (which is of mahogany,) is a picture representing the Holy Family. The East window is very lofty, and of five Kghts, with curiously elaborated tracery. The Altar rails are also of mahogany. The Pulpit, Reading Desk and Font, (which is of very small and mean pro- portions,) are in firont of the Altar. The Church is pewed throughout, the entrance to the side pews are firom doors in the North and South Cloisters. The East wall of the Church, over the Vestry and South doors, is covered with monuments, erected to the memory of different families con- nected with the town ; copies of the inscrip- tions on them will be found in the Appendix. The organ is in a gallery at the West end, and there are also galleries extending half-way along the North and South walls of the Church. There are seven large, and very lofty windows of four lights each on either side of the Church, with tracery similar to that of the East windows. The vestry is on the South side of the Chancel. The two Town chests are kept one in the North, the other in the South cloister. The interior dimensions of the Church are as follows : — 110 Extreme length fix>m North to South . 120 feet. Extreme width, induding the cloisters . 62 feet. Height £rom the floor to the ceiling . . 42 feet. In the tower there is a fine ring of eight bells, placed there in 1722. On them are the foUow- ing inscriptions cast roimd the rim ; — Ist and 2nd. Prosperity to the Church of Eng- land. 3rd. Prosperity to this Town. 4th. Prosperity to this Town and Parish. 5th and 6th. Giles Body, Matthew Wilkins, Chx wardens. 7th. I, to the Church the living call, and to the dead do summons alL In the centre of the inscription on all the above bells is the date 1722, and the initials A. R^ ^ There can be but little doabt that these initials are those of Abraham Radhall, a celebrated bell-founder of Gloucester. The family has been engaged in this business for generations. Abraham Rudhall, senr., from 1684 to 1736, in which year he died, aged 78. Abraham Rudhall, junr., 1718 ; Abel Rudhall, 1738 to 1754; Thomas Rudhall, 1780; Charles and John Rudhall, 1785 to 1828. To the latter succeeded the present firm of Mears, of Gloucester and Whitechapel. Gloucester and Lichfield seem to have been the earliest known places celebrated for bell-founding. John of Gloucester was a bell-foander there in 1310 ; whilst Henry Mitchell is quoted as contemporary with him at Lichfield. In S. Michael's Church, Gloucester, is the following inscription, on a cross : " Pray for the sonll of Willm Henshawe, Belfounder, and late Maire of this Towne, Ill The eighth bell was erected in 1803 ; on it is the following inscription : 8th. J. Rich and R M. Warman, G W., 1803. J. Rudhall^ fecit. There are also a set of chimes in the tower, which were given by the Rev. John Wight, in 1749 ; they play the tune of the 113th Psalm for about four minutes every four hours, viz., at ten, two, and six. The Parish Church, as rebuilt in 1777-1781, consisted of one hundred and ten pews, which, with liie exception of thirty two, were all appro- priated under the Act of Parliament, for rebuilding the Chinxk By this arrangement, only one hun- died and sixty sittings in pews were set apart for the use of the poor, and about eighty in other parts of the Chiux^h ; in all two hundred and forty. At a subsequent period, gaUeries were erected on the North and South sides of the Church, in which the pews were all appropriated. The evils arising from the very inadequate pro- visions then made for the wants of the poor in the parish Church, had long been felt, and various and Alys and Agnes, his wyfes ; the whiche Willm deceased the • . . day of • . in the jer of our Lord God a thousand occcc. ; and the said Aljs deceased the seconde day of ffebruar thee yere of our Lord mxycxix. — ^for whose soules of yor charite say a pater nostr and a ave.*' — I am indebted for the aboTe to the Rev. John Ward, of Wath Rectory, Ripon. 112 plans were proposed for remedying the evil, but none of them were ever carried into execution. In the year 1842, a commission was issued by Dr. J. H. Monk, then Lord Bishop of the Diocese, for mftlring enquiries into its Ecclesiastical State. Under the head of Tetbxu-y, the Commissioners reported that it was very deficient in accommoda* tion for the poor, and recommended that a Chapel of Ease should be built. By the sale of the Advowson of the Living in 1839, a thousand pounds had been set apart for Church purposes, the Act directing ^* that the sum of one thousand pounds sterling be applied by the said trustees or feoffees to such purposes, and in such manner, for increasing the number of free sittings in the parish Chun^h of Tetbury aforesaid, or in the erection of stoves for heating the same, in fittings for lighting it witii gas. or in the erection of a Chapel of E^e, in connection with the aforesaid Church, or to any or all of such purposes as the Vicar or Churchwardens for the time being of the said parish shall, with the sanction of Her Majesty's Commissioners for building new Churches, order and direct." In the year 1841, a vestry meeting was held to take the subject of increased Church accom- modation for the poor into consideration. It was agreed to biuld a Chapel of Ease, and also that so much of the above mentioned money as U3 had not been otherwise expended, should be ap- plied to this work. At this period, the population of the parish was about 3,000, of whom it was assumed that three fifths or upwards of 1,800 persons were poor, as they occupied houses assessed in the rate at a sum not exceeding £4. The accommo- dation for these in the Parish Chiu'ch consisted of two hundred and forty sittings only, and these were mostly situated in a most remote part of the Church. The cost of the Chapel of Ease was as follows : — From the Church fund above mentioned . £1000 From the Incorporated Church Building Society ..... . 250 From the Diocesan Church Building Fund . 150 £1400 In addition to this, " a limited subscription, very insufficient to cover the cost of the building,'' was raised. The whole cost of this Chapel of Ease exceeded by £2000 the sum thus obtained, for which sum the Vicar is responsible, and has paid interest upon it from the time the debt was incurred." A Chapel of Ease, dedicated to 0\tr Blbssed Savioub, was consecrated by the Right Rev. James B I am indebted to the Rev. John Frampton, Vicar of Tetbuiy, for several of the above p^ticulars. I 1 114 Henry Monk, D.D., late Lord Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, on the 23rd of August, 1848 ; the foundation stone having been laid by Miss Framp- ton, the daughter of the Vicar, on the 31st of March, 1846. It was erected through the instru- mentality of the Vicar, assisted by Mends, and the sum of £1,000 from the frmd arising from the sale of the advowson in 1839 ; and contains seats for about 400 persons. It is built in the Decorated style, wit^ a Chancel, Nave, North and South Aisles, Porch, and Vestry. The nave is separated from the Aisles by five arches^ which rest on piers alternately circular and octagonal, their dripetones termmatmg in carved figures of angels. Both Nave and Aisles are covered by one roof, inclined at their junction ; it is of a high pitch, open in the interior to the ridge piece of foreign oak, with horizontal tie beams, &a, the wall pieces resting on corbels covered with foliage, and the cornice ornamented with the baU-flower. The whole of the interior is lined with ashlar, the stone used for this purpose being the white Painswick, which in fineness of grain and general appearance nearly approaches the Caen. The North and South windows of the aisles are single lights^ with trefoil heads ; those at the East and West are^ however, of two lights, with tracery in the head, and are all filled with stained glass in patterns, with the exception of the West window of the South 115 aisle, which is of one lights and represents the Baptism of our Blessed Lord by S. John. This last portion of the Church, immediately adjoining the entrance from the porch, forms a Baptistry, the Font of which is octagonal, of Caen stone, the bowl large and deep, the panels ornamented with the Evangelistic symbols, alternately with the Dove, Agnus Dei, the Cross, and the Sacred Monogram. Its base rests on a small raised pavement of encaustic tiles ; the oaken cover is of open work. On the left hand side of the South- West door, near the font, is a poor-box of stone, restincr on a pedestal, and surmounted by the half figL of aV angel, bearing the legend ** He that giveth to the poor lendeth to the Lord'' The West window of the Nave is of two lights ; one representing the Blessed Virgin and the In- fant Saviour, the other our Blessed Lord, holding in his hand a Cross. All the seats are of oak, and open, terminated by poppy heads. An open Lectern is placed on the South side of the Chancel arch ; and on the North is a low pulpit of Caen stone, with carved panels, and surmounted by a canopy, the entrance to which is by a passage through the Chancel wall. Between these, imme- diately before the entrance to the Chancel, looking East, is the faldstool,^ at which the Litany is said. ^ Faldstoolj a small desk at which Uie Litany is enjoined ]16 A light screen of oak, of elegant tracery, with gates, and a gnded cornice, divides the Chancel from the rest of the Cliurch. It is entered by a single step, and displays at the end a rich window of three lights. In the centre hght, the Cruci- fixion is represented, with S. Mary Magdalen kneeling at the foot of the Cross. In the light on the North side is the figure of the Blessed Virgin ; in that of the South, that of S. John the Evangelist. In the flowing tracery above are the figures of angels, and the emblems of the four Evangelists. In the apex our Lord is re- presented sitting on His Throne of Glory. The glass of this window is very rich, and the effect of the whole exceedingly good. The Altar is a slab of marble on oak legs, with a frontal of crimson velvet, on which is worked an ornamental Cross in gold, with the Sacred Monogram in the centre ; it stands on a black marble foot piece, raised upon a floor of encaustic tiles, and is ap- proached by three steps from the ChanceL The reredos, of Caen stone, richly gilt, is of five arched panels, surmoimted with canopies, and adorned with crockets and finials. In the centre is a Cross in relief, the points and shafts of which are ornamented with the emblems of the Four to be sung or said. This word is probably derived from the barbarous Latin fodda, a place shut up, a fold. (Hoohf^ Church Dictionary,) 117 Evangelists. Two windows also of stained glass light the Chancel, under one of wEibh is the Sedilia. There is a Piscina on the South, and a Credence on the North, and next to the latter is a canopied recess, containing a brass plate on a black marble tablet, wlach records the date of the Consecration of the Church, and the sources from which the building fund was derived. There is a Priest's door on the South, and another on the North into the Vestry, which also has an open roof of oak, and two wmdows of stained glass. The organ chamber is on the North side of the Chancel, and is separated from it by an open stone screen. There are stalls on the North and South sides of the Cliancel for the Clergy and Choir. The roof is of oak panels, with gilt bosses, and the cornice is ornamented with ball flowers gilt. The whole of the interior fittings of the Church are most substantial and complete, and reflect the greatest credit on the architect and all connected with its construction. The exterior is also in good keeping. An oak Porch, of open wood work, forms an entrance on the South West of the Church, and a well propor- tioned lych gate,* surmounted by a Cross, is the entrance to the churchyard. A bell gable is placed on the Western end of the Nave, and * Lych gaU^ or corpse gate, from kick « dead body, hence Litchfield. Ilook*? Church Dictionary, 118 GroBBea on the EaBtem end of ihe ChaaoeL On the day of Consecration (August 23rd, 1848), the Clergy met at the school room, and awaited the Bishop, on whose anival, they fcnrmed a pro- cession in their surplices to the Church. Amongst them were the Rev. R. W. Huntley, of Box- well, George Madan, of CSam, Rural Deans, Sir George Rrevost, Bart., W. F. Powell, of Ciren- cester, and about twenty others. The petition Sac Ccmsecraticm having been read, the Bishop and Clergy entered the Churdi, and proceeded to the Chancel, repeating the twenty fourth Psalm; after which, the Bishop duly signed the deed of Consecration. The service for the day then commenced The Prayers and litany were read by the Curates, the Rev. C. F. Lowder, and the Rev. H. H. Wyatt. The Lessons by the Rev. W. F. Powell, and Sir George Prevoet^ the Psalms and Canticles were chanted to Gregorian and English chants. The service for the Holy Communion was read by the Bishop, his two Chaplains, the Rev. T. Murray Browne, and Rev. G. N. Barrow, reading the Epistle and Gospel The sermon was preached by the Vicar, the Rev. John Frampton, from the fortieth chapter of Exodus, and thirty foin*th verse. The Offertory s^itences were then read, and the prayer for the Ch\ux)h militant followed ; after which, his Lord- ship consecrated the burial groimd, and the non- communicants having left the Church, the Holy 119 Communion was administered. After the service, theBiahop. Clergy, aud many of the pariduoners were entertained by the Vicar. The children of the School, to the number of three hundred, to- gether with the workmen and others connected with the building of the Church, were also liber- ally entertained. There was a second service in the evening at seven o'clock, when the sermon was preached by the Rev. W. F. Powell, the Vicar of Cirencester.* Mr. S. W. Daukes, of Whitehall Place, London, was the architect. The Church of S. Andrews, Wells street, London, and the Agricultural College, at Cirencester, were also built by him. Mr. Francis Brown, of Tetbury, was the contractor for the worka The foUowing particulars respecting the Advow- son of Tetbuiy may not be out of place here. The Rectory and Advowson of Tetbury were originally granted by Thomas de S. Walerick (the last male heir of that family), in 1196, to the Benedictine Abbey of Eynesham,' in Oxford- > For the above particulan, see Oiaueeater Cknmicley Sept. 1848. 'Egnesham or Eynahain Abbey, was of the Benedictine order, and was founded by Etheknare, Earl of Cornwall and Devonshire, before a.d. 1005, to the honour of the Blessed l^rgin Maiy, S. Benedict, and All Saints. It was valued at the dissolution of monasteries, 26 Hen. VUL, at £421 16s. Id., and was granted 35 Hen. Yin., to Sir Edward North and William Darcye. (Bishop Tanner's MomutMcaiu) 1 2d illiire, and confirmed by the Bishop of Worcester, in whose diocese Tetbury was then situated/ To this Abbey it wa« afterwards made appn,priate. and a Vicarage" was oidaiued and endowed with the whole tithes of one part of the parish (Dough- ton) and ihe small tithes of the rest. The Rectory and the Advowson continued to be part of the possession of the Abbey of Eynsham, until its suppression aa one of the greater monaateries under the statute enacted for that purpose. 31 Henry VIII (1540.) They both came then into the hands of the Crown, where they remained but a short time, being made by the King part of the endowment of Christ's Church, Oxford. This grant took place under Lettera Patent, 38 Henry VlIL (1547.) Christ Church, Oxford, continued to possess both the impropriate Rectory, and the Advowson, of the Vicarage until the 3rd of Elizabeth, 1561, when the College exchanged the advowson of the Vicarage of Tetbury, with Henry, Lord Berkeley, for that of Wootton under Edge, but retained the impropriate Rectory. mil ■ - ^ ■ ■ ■ - ■ ^ The grant of Thomas de S. Walerick, of the advowson of Eynsham Abbey, and the confirmation thereof bj the Bishop of Worcester, is to be found in the Appendix to Steven's Supplement to the Manastictm, p. 99 to 101. * When an J Church b a vicarage, it maj be presumed that It formerly belonged to some reli^ous foundation. No vicarages existed in England before the reign of King John. 121 George, Lord Berkeley, sold the Advowson of the Vicarage in 1632, to the Feoifees of the town, in trust for the inhabitants. The Feoffees ap- pointed the Vicar from that period, till the advow- son was sold (under the authority of an Act of Parliament), in 1839, to John Stanton, Esq. It has since been disposed of to Charles Stanton, Esq., of Bownham, Stroud, the present Patron of the living. The impropriate Rectory is at present held under Christ Church, Oxford, by R. S. Holford, Esq., M.P., for twenty one years, by the usual lease renewable every seven years. Its annual value is £266 16s. The tithes* of the Vicarage were commuted by agreement on the 28th October, 1837, for a rent charge of £807 17s., per annum, and this was confirmed by the Commissioners appointed under 6 & 7 William IV., c. 91, on the 31st of December, 1839. The value of the glebe, which consists of 59 acres, 2 roods, 30 poles, of excellent arable and meadow land, is about £150 per annum. The reserved rents on property leased for lives, amounts to £52 7s. 6d per annum. There is a commodious Vicarage Hoiise and 6 Tithes were anciently paid to any religious person at the will of the owner of the land, until the decree of Pope Innocent m., which confined the tithes to be paid to the Parson of the parish, about the year 1200. (Sir R. Atkyn's OloucesterMrty p. 7.) 122 garden, opposite the Paxish Ghurch. The Vica- rage is endowed with the whole tithes of Dough- ton, and the small tithes of Upton, and of the rest of the parish (tJie Orange excepted), all but com. In Pope NichoW tax^ the Ghurdi of Tettebur, was placed at £24, and in the King^s books' £36 13& 4d. ; first fruits, £36 13a 4d. ; tenths, £3 13s. 4d. ; procurations, 10s. ; synodals, 2a ; penticostals, 2s. 6d Pabticulabs respecting Rev. John Wight. The Rev. John Wight, who was vicar of Tetbury from 1741 to 1777, was a great bene&ctor to the town, and the principle means of the present Parish Church being built, to which he himself subscribed £1500. He was Curate of Tetbury in 1740, and from a MS. note in his own hand- ^ Pope Nicholaa' tax (he waa the Fourth of that name, and held the Popedom from 1288 to 1292), was begun in the reign of Edward L, in the year 1288, and finished in 1291. The whole was under the direction of John [de Pontoi^, Bishop of Winton, he died in 1S04, and Oliver [Sutton] Bishop of Lincoln, who died in 1300. All the taxes were regulated by it, till 26 Heniy VIII. Preface to ike edition of Pope Nkkolas* TaXf puhUahed hy order of the Home of Commona. ' See Dugdale's Monasticonf yol. ii. 168, where the parsonage of Tedburye, in the countie of Glostere, parcelle of Eynesham Abbey, is ii>|dued at zxxvjlL xi^s* iii|)d. See also Harl. MSS.y British Museum, No. 4316. ^ CD uJ (/D a: < CO a: CO CD UJ CO tr < nd burii wer. firrt established by Cromwell, the Vicar General of Henry VIII., in 1536. By a constitution made by the Archbishop and Clergy of the province of Canterbury, 25th of October, 1697, it was ordered that Parish Register Books should be pur- chased at the expense of each Parish, and that there should be transcribed at the same Parish cost from the paper books then in use, into parch- ment registers, not only the names of those who had been baptised, married, or buried during the reign of the then Queen (which commenced in 1558, a period of thirty nine years prior to the mandate), but also the names of those who thence- forth should be baptised, married, or buried. Such transcripts to be examined, and their cor- rectness certified at the bottom of each page, by the Clergyman and Churchwardens. Copies of the Registers were to be forwarded annually, within one month of Easter, by the respective Churchwardens, to the Registrar of the Diocese, that they might be faithfully preserved in the Episcopal archivea The constitution was approved of by the Queen, xmder the Great Seal of Eng- 128 land, and ordered to be observed in both pro- vinces of Canterbiuy and York,* But although parochial roisters were ordered thus early to be kept, and provision also made for their preservation, the earliest existing registers of this parish commence on the 25th of March, 1631. (6 Car. L) As ordered by the constitution men- tioned above, all the early register books are of parchment, but are not always signed at the bottom of the page by the Vicar, and never, as I can find, by the Churchwardens. The first entry in the Baptismal Register, is- Thomas Austen, the son of Thomas Austen, baptised the 27th of March. The first in the Marriage Roister — Nicholas Lyde, and Susanna Shreefe, married 7th of May. The first in the Burial Register, is— Clement Nicholas, buried 25th of March, 1631. There are no entries of marriages in the years 1641, 1642, 1643, 1644, 1645, 1646, 1648, 1649, which is probably to be accounted for by the irregularities consequent upon the Civil Wars, diuing the Great Rebellion. There are no entries of burials in 1641, 1643, 1644, 1645, 1646, and only one in 1647. Many ^ See Sims' Manual for the Oenealogiat, Topographer^ Antiquary^ and the Legai Professor, Russell Smith, 1856 ; and Notes and Queries^ 2nd Series, Vol. ii, p. 378. 129 of the entries of burials before 1661 are scarcely legible. Many of the marriages contracted during the Commonwealth were mere civil contracts, no reli- gious ceremony being performed between the con- tracting parties. The first two entries of mar- riages in 1654 are signed by " Nath. Cripps," probably a magistrate residing at Upton. These are entered thus — John Haywood and Joane Saimders were mar- ried y* 6 of Aprill. Richard Nowell and Elizabeth Horwood were married 24 AprilL Nath. Cripps. Some other of the registers axe curiously enough entered, e,g. Saturday, December y' 13th, 1656, was borne Sarah Deninge, daughter of John Deninge, one quarter of an hour before 6 of the dock at night. 1696. April 14, we have the entry, "A Quakers child borne." no name being given, probably from the parents refusing to allow the child to be baptised. 1702. Oct 17, Elizabeth, daughter of John Bliss, Tetbury, borne on Friday morning at six, Oct. 16, and baptised Oct. 17. The old Vicar evidently being anxious that the date of his daughter's birth and baptism should be accurately known. In the following extracts I have endeavoured 130 to select those who were closely connected with the parish, and therefore have an especial claim on our notice. From the Burial Register — Eichard Talboys, Esq., deceased, the 3rd of August, and was buried the 18th of August^ 1663. 1658 The 15th of January, deceased ould Ambrose Inde. 1665 John Denning, Clerk of this Parish for about fifty years, was buried the 25th day of May, iEtas 91. 1667 Eliz. Creed, iU^ttimata (buried). 1669 An Ejiowles, murdered by her own son, and buried Aprill y* 19th, 1669. Richard Knowles, hanged in irons, for mur- deren his own mother, August 4th. 1674 Mr. Sam^ Gastrile, Oct. y* 30th Mr. John Elton, Dec. y* 18th. 1675 Good wife Huging, May y* 24th. A child of Witch Warrand, Martch y* 12th. 1678 Henry Heaven, scoolmaster. 1689 A child of Witch Comleys, May y* first. 1681 Mr. William Savage, Esquire, Octob. y* 3. 1685 Mr. James GastrUe, deceased Octob. y® 12th. 1696 Mr. Daniel Norris, Vicar, Aprill 22nd. 1695 A child of Wm. Holfords, Dec. 5th. Mr. Deacon's kinswoman, 30th. A Quaker, January 31st. 1700 Dr. Stedman, May 3rd. 1701 A Stranger, Feb. 18. 131 A Scotchman, May 28 1703 Mr. Hall, Schoolmaster, June 5th. Old Crowther, a Quaker, January 21, 1705 W°*. Holforda child, Nov. 4th. 1708 A child found dead in the Church porch, buryed Feb. 14th. 1 720 Charles Fisher, a soulder, was shot on Mon- day, May the 25th, 1720, at the four mile house for desertion- Witness, John Mitchell, Clark. 1738 Elinor and AquiUa Turtell, kiUed by y* fall of an house, March 8. 1769 Mrs. Mary Deacon, aged 84, much lamented, March 2. 1773 James Stephens, our excellent Parish Clerk, aet. 53, November 6th. 1775 Mary, d. of John Bamfield, killed by a waggon, Aug. 16. 1777 Jane, d. of William Ludlam, a child mur- der d by its mother, May 19. The Kev. John Wight, M.A., Vicar of this Parish, aged 70, Nov. 24, * 1786 Robt. Williams, Schoolmaster, May 17, Thomas Croome Wickes, D.D., Vicar of this Parish, April 7, A chimney-sweeper, name unknown, June 26, 1788 Elizabeth, the relict of T. C. Wickes, D.D.,' late Vicar, Dec. 27. 1792 Rev. Mr. Jn"* Richardes, Vicar of this Parish, May 31st 132 1795 William Preen, found drown in a Canal between Stroud and Salperton, July 8th. 1797 Mrs. Ann Taylor, in her life time a great benefactress to the Tetbury Sunday Schooljs, Dea 21st. 1800 A poor soldier belonging to the 43rd Regt. of Foot, Dec. 1 7th. 1803 The Rev. Mr. John Savage, Rector of Be- verstone, March 26th. Thos. Cripps, of Upton, Dea 30th. 1807 Mary Smith, of Doughton, who was blind for many years, Dea 15tL 1806 Mr. Robert Wight, one of the Feoffees of this Borough, March 5th. John Pill, jun'- who was executed at Fisherton, March 26. Mary Peters, found dead in a well, April 21. 1811 Josiah, S. of Samuel and Sarah Lee, a gipsey boy, who was shot, Oct. 5. Churchwabdens' Accx>UNTa It may seem to some that the Churchwardens' accoimts of any parish are, in themselves, but of little interest, and are incapable of affording any information worthy of recording. However true this may be with respect to Churchwardens' accounts of modem date, which are generally arranged so as to give the least possible infer- mation» it certainly is not applicable to those 133 of padt years, for it is from the entry in these aoooimts of various payments on several public occasions, that these events are rescued from entire oblivion. As has been truly observed by Mr. Nichols, in his Progresses of Queen Elizabeth^ ** Trifling as it may at first appear to enter the payment for ringing the bells at S. Margaret's, Westminster, Lambeth, &c., and the Churchwardens' accounts of other places, they have been of material service in pointing out dates of many a Royal visit, which had hereto- fore always escaped notice!' And although the the pariah accounts of such a country town as Tetbury could not for a moment be brought into competition with those of our great metropolitan parishes, in which many events of historical impor- tance annually occur, still many interesting facts respecting the fortunes of the town, and the manners and customs of our for^fetheiB. may be elicited from them ; which, but for these, and similar records, would be entirely lost to us. I have endeavoured to classify the extracts which follows in such a manner, as to place facts re- lating to similar events in the same category, adding explanatory notices whenever they seemed necessary. The Churchwardens' accounts for the Parish of Tetbury, commence in the year 1589. Edward ' Pre&ee, vol. i., p. 1 10. 134 Kenter, and Thomas Bird, are the names of the first Churchwardens recorded. For the first two or three years this is all that is put down. The first regular account is in the year 1592, and is as follows : — Ano. Dno. 1592, the seoonde of Apprill, in the xxxiiij* yere of the Queens Maiestes raigne. An even aocounte delivered by Richard Bridgwood and Bayley Woodroofe, Church- wardens in tedburie, before Roberte Walker Bailie, Mr. Greorge Estcourte, Willm. Myles, the day and yere above said Delivered in money to John Warrant and John Boxe, Churchwardens, xviiijs. ijd. Item. More uppon an ould account by Each*. Bridgwood and Bayley Woodroffe to gether up in their yere, xvs. ijd. Ch\u:che bookes delivered w"* other goodes imto John Boxe, and John Warrand, by Rich^ Bridgwood, and Bayley Woodroffe, Churchwardens, y* day and yere above said Imprimis, on surples, on silver cupp w*** a cover It. One table clothe w^ iij napkyna It. One brasse pott, and wood bucket. It. vj. bookesj w"* oertayne lead.* In the following years the Church vessels, ^ The spelling here is identical with the original MSS. qp 13o books, and furniture delivered from the Church- wardens of the preceding year to those of the following one, are regularly entered at the bottom of the year's accounts, and signed by those pre- sent at the Vestry at which the accounts were audited. The Bailiff usually signs first. I shall first mention the books which the Church- wardens of this parish were accustomed to hand over to their successors. They appear to have consisted of a Book of Homilies, a Book of Canons, Bishop Jewell's Apology, the Book of Articles, Foxe's Book of Martyrs, and the Paraphrase of Erasmus. The first entry of a book is — 1594 One Homely [Homily] Book.' 1599 The Parrifase of Erasmus, and a register book of parchment.* 1607 One booke of Constitutions.' 1608 The booke of y" Canons." 1611 One booke called Jewell's book. In 1613, it is called Bishop Jewell's Apology.^ 6 ' The First Book of Homilies was put forth in the earlj part of Edward Yl's reign (1547,) the second hook in the 5th of Elizabeth (1563,) by order of Convocation. ^ Desiderius Boterdamus Erasmus, was bom at Rotterdam in 1467, and died in 1536. He was a very learned man and published many works. In 1522-24, his Paraphroiis m Novum TesUmentum was published at Basil, in 2 vols* folio. In 1548, this paraphrase was published in English and Latin, in black letter, 4to. ^ The book of Canons was enacted by Convocation in 1603. ® Jolin Jewell, Bishop of Salisbury, was born at Buden, in 136 1614 A new Comon Prayer Book. 1633 One Table of Degrees/ 1640 Item, p*. for a booke against the fast,* 2 1657 Layd out for an act for the observinge of y* Sabaoth, 00 00 6 1664 P*. flfor the booke of Articles/ 00 01 00 1665 For a booke for the fast,' 00 01 00 Defvon, m 1522, and died in 1571. His Apologia EccUsub Anglicana was first published in London, in 1562, in large 8to., other editions were published in 1581, 1591, 1599, &c. It was frequently printed in England, and several times on the Continent, where it was translated into German, Italian, French, Spanish and Dutch. A Greek translation was pub- lished in Oxford in 1614, and in Welch at the same place. By the order of Queen Elizabeth, James L, and Charles I., and four Archbishops in succesmon, the Apology was ordered to be read, and chained up in all parish Churches throughout England and Wales. Watts' Bibliotheca Britannica. * The Table of Ejndred and Affinity, " Wherein whosoever are related are forbidden in Scripture and our laws to marry together," was ^rawn up by Archbishop Parker, in 1563, and is ordered by the 99th Canon, to be set up in all Churches. * Nov. 12, 1640, the Commons, in concurrence with the Lords, moved the King for a fast which was appointed and held. British Chronologistj vol. i., p. 203. * In 1552, Forty-two Articles of Beligion were published, they were reduced to thirty-nine in 1562, by Archbishop Parker and Convocation. They received again the authority of Convocation in 1571, as well as that of Parliament. See E. H. Browne's Introduction to Expotitum of Thirty-nine ArtieltSf and Hardwick*s History of the Articlea. 1 1665, April 5. A fast was observed on this day for the success of the war against the Dutch. British Chronohgist^ 137 1671 P. for y* booke of Marters,* 01 00 00 1688 Paid for a booke with thanksgiving Prayer for a Prince of Wales,* 10 1689 Paid for a proclamacon for the ffast^ and the booke of Prayers, 00 01 06 1689 Ffor a statute book, and y* K*. deda- racion, 00 03 00 1696 P. charges for 3 warr*" ag*. Sabbath breakers, 3 The Church Furniture next comes under our notica In 1612 a Pulpit Cushion is first men- tioned. 1613 linen for the Communion Table is first mentioned 1617 One oiwe glass. 1629 This year a green Pulpitt cloth. 1656 It. Paid for a new Pulpitt cloth, 01 08 06 1662 Payd Samuell Saunders for Holland to make y* surpluss, 04 07 06 yol. L, p. 261. July 5, 1665; a &8t was ordered to be observed on account of the plague, the first Wednesday in eyerj month. * John Foxe, Prebendary of Salbbury was bom 1517, and died 1687. He published in folio, London, 1563, "Acts and Monuments of these last and perilous days, touching matters of the Church." It passed through ton editions between that year and 1683; since which, no complete edition has been published. Watts' Bibtiaiheca BrUanmca, * June 10, 1688. A Prince of Wales bom, who was named James. ^ May 23, 1689. A proclamation for a fast was made to be 138 1676 Ffor an houre glasse, 00 00 09 1688 P. for a Communion cup, 4 16 The following are the most remarkable entries relating to the history of the times : — 1640 Item. P*. to the ringars on the 5 of November, 2 6 1641 Item. For the ringers the 7th of Sep- tember and the 5 Nov. 4 6 1649 Item. Payed for the [ . *] money and unto the Sessions for maymed soldiers and for widdowes and orfans, 2 10 3 1649 Item. Payed to poor passengers that came with passes, 2 11 1656 It. Payd for the exchanging of y* clapper for y* greate bell, 00 19 00 It. Paid for a bason and fi^me for baptizinge of Infanta, 00 19 00 1657 Paid to travellers with breifes, 00 03 00 Payd the High Constable an impo- sition, layd upon the towne and pish towards the repairing of Chep- stowe Bridge and Cainesham. 01 09 03 1659 It. P*. for ringeinge on Gunpowder Treason day and proclaimoinge the L*. Protector.® kept about London on the 6th of June, and on the 19th in other parts of Engbuid. ^ A word ifl here illegible in the original MSS. ^ Oliver Cromwell was proolaimed Protector, Dec. 12, 1653. 139 1664 Given to the ringers when the King [Charles II.] came through the town, 00 15 00 1 675 Ffor ringing on Gunpowder Treason day, and on the Kings birthday,^ and at routing the rebells* and other times, 01 12 06 1687 Ffor ringing the bells when K. James came through the town,^ 01 05 00 For ringing on the late K*. birthday,' 00 05 00 For ringing on Coronation day,* 00 02 06 7 James 11. was born the 14th Oct., 1683. ^ This probably refers to the defeat of the rebels, under the Duke of Monmouth, at Sedgmoor, on the 6th of July, 1685. For full particulai's see Macaulay, vol. i., p. 608-612. 9 James II., on the 16th of August, 1687, left Windsor for Portsmouth, 'when he '* walked round the fortifications, touched some scrofulous people, and then proceeded in one of his yachts to Southampton." From Southampton he went to Bath, where he left the Queen. When he departed, the High Sheriff of Somersetshire accompanied him to the frontier of the County, where the High Sheriff of Gloucestershire was in attendance. The Duke of Beaufort soon after met him and conducted him to Badminton, where a splendid banquet was prepared. In the afternoon he proceeded to Gloucester, and in so doing, probably passed through Tetbury. — Compare Macaulay, vol. ii., 294-295. 1 King James EL was crowned at Westminster Abbey, on the 2drd of April, 1685. The sermon was preached by Francis Turner, Bishop of Ely, and Lord High Almoner. — ^Macaulay, vol. i., p. 473-476. 140 1688 Ffor ringing at our K'. coming in,* 10 Ffor ringing at the K'. being pro- claimed,* 12 6 Ffor the late K*. declaration,' 10 1691 Gave for ringers 9'. 5'. (Nov. 5), for the victory in Ireland,* the return of the Eonge,^ and at severall other times, 01 08 00 1692 Gave the ringers for the victory at sea,* 5 00 1693 Paid by my partner for ringing on the Kings birthday,'' the return of * William III. landed at Torbaj, on the 5th November, 1688. — ^Macaulaj, vol. ii., p. 483. He was proclaimed 12th Feb., 1689, bj the Heralds, at the usual places in London and West- minster. * April 27 th, 1688, James H. issued another Declaration of Liberty of Conscience, in which the former declaration, of 4th April, 1687, is recited. — British Chron,, vol. i., p. 846. * The yictorj in Ireland here mentioned, is the celebrated Battle of the Boyne, fought between William HI. and his &ther-in-law, James II., on the Ist July, 1690, in which the army of the latter was totally defeated. — Macaulay, vol. iii., p. 629-636. * William HI., returned from Ireland, sailing from Waterford, and landing at Bristol, Sept. 6th, 1690. He stopped one day at Badminton, on his way to London. ^ This victory was the Battle of La Hogue, fought May 19ib, 1692, in which the English fleet, under Russell, totally defeated the French, under Tourville, and destroyed twenty-one of the largest French men-of-war. 7 William, son of Henry Frederick, Prince of Orange, and 141 the King from Flanders, and on Gun- powder Treason day, 13 5. 1693-4 For tolling at the Queen's ftineral,* 3 0. 1695 To the ringers when Namur was sur- surrendered,' 5 For ringing at the Bangs return,* 6 0. 1698 Gave the ringers on the news of peace,* 12 Gave them when peace was proclaimed,' 15 Nov. 19, being the day of the Bang's retium, gave the ringers,* 10 Marj, daughter of Charles I., was bom at the Hague, 14th Nov., 1650. ^ Queen Mary died at Kensington, 28th Dec., 1693, and was buried with great magnificence at Westminster Abbej, on the 5th of March following. The Dukes of Norfolk, Somerset, and Northumberland, the Marquess of Normanbj, and the E^rls of Kent, and Derby, were the pall-bearers. Tenison, Archbishop of Canterbury, preached from Eccles. vii., 14. All the bells of the Churches throughout England were ordered to be tolled on that day. (Sandford's Qenealogy of Eoyal FcanUy^ p. 720.) ^ The town of Namur was surrendered 23rd July, 1695. William III. was the English general. Marshal Boufflers the French. > William in. returned from Flanders, 11th October, 1695. > The Treaty of Peace was signed at Byswick, between England, France, Spain, Holland, and Germany, on the 20th of September, 1697. By this fiunous treaty the peace of Europe was established. — Haydn. * Peace was proclaimed in England. ^ William in. returned from Holland in the autumn of 1698, 142 1700 Paid for ringing on S. George's day,* 2 6. The items that follow relate to the repairing and beautifying of the ChnrcL 1663 Item. Paid for pointing the steeple, and mending and gilding the weather- cock and work, 6 16 6 1661 Payd for mending the King's armes, that is carved in tymber, 00 10 00 Payd for the makinge of the new King's armes in the flfram', 04 00 00 1664 P*. to Thomas Avery for leading the font, 02 03 10 P^. for the cover for the ffont to R. Groom, 02 09 06 1671 Paid for raissing y* bailifes seat and timber, and mending other seats in the Church, 01 10 11 1678 Payde towards the mending and re- pairinge the tower and steeple to W". Chapman, 45 14 02 1679 Payd Stephen Lews for repairing of the Church porch, 02 01 08 having settled there the Treaty of Partition. This treaty was signed on the 11th Oct., and regulated the succession to the Spanish Crown. ^ James II. was crowned on the 22nd of April (being S. George's Day.) Perhaps some Jacobites at Tetbury, in their zeal for the exiled King, caused the bells to be rung on this day. James II. died at S. Germains, Sept 6th, 1704, aged 68. 143 1685 To John Sherman, for making a gallery, a ringing loft, aixd a beare, and seal- ing [ . ®] in the Church, and other work, and for timber and irons, 59 06 06. 1691 Paid to Tho. Thombnry for a candle- stick, 03 15 00 P. to Robert Meddy for the King^s Arms, 05 05 Paid Thomas Thombury for another candlestick, 3 10 1695 P*. James Browne for work about the tower in new leading thereof, 15 9 11 For casting the brasses, 1 1 10 1698 For the pulpit candlestick, 15 6 1702 P*. for a box to put the surplice in, 1 The following entries occur for killing vermin : — 1673 Payd for killing of 5 hedhoggs, 00 00 06 1678 Payd for a killinge a foxe, 00 01 00 1680 Payd for 4 fFoxes heades, 00 04 00 1684 For a ffoxes head, 19 hedghoggs, and 4 joyes (jays), 00 03 01 1685 For 22 foxes heads, 01 02 00 1687 P*. for ffour fFoxes heads to Mr. Hunt- ley's man, and 12 to the Duke of Beaufort's man, 00 16 00 A word is here iU^ible in the MSS. 144 MlSCELLANEOU& 1640 Item. For bread and wine the whole year for Sacramenttes, 5 14 7 1633 Item. Ilec^ gathered for bread and wine 5 1624 Item. Rec*. for Mr. Gastreirs rate, 10 1626 Item. One lease of the Church House, granted to Mr. Sperte, to be delivered from Churchwardens successively one to another 1630 Item. Rec*. for the Church house rent, 6 3 4 1638 Item. A gift of £3 that was given by the Widow West, of Upton, unto the Church, was bestowed towards the building of a gallery. 1656 It. Payd out in expenses in o' journey to Glouc*" being warned to deliver in accompt of y* Ministers salary. 1659 For send^g th; money forTLd to y* Sheriff, 10 1674 To Roger Webb, for looking to the Church in tyme of catechising the children, 00 01 00 1675 Payd for bridge money 00 19 00 1684 To John Hooper, for writing the re- sponses in the Book of Comon Prayer, 00 01 08 us To John Holland for writing rules of instruction for charitable uBes, 01 02 06 In this year mention is made, in tjie Church goods delivered by the old to the new Church- wardens^ of a copy of ** The Kings' declaracon of touching for the evil ".' 1694 Spent in making 3 journeys to the EJarl of Berks, before he would pay me, 5 1656 Under the head of convicion money is mentioned— Rec*. of John Wild^ being convicted for tiplinge' 3 4 Rec*. of Nicholas Porthurye, of Bibury, for swearing foure oathes,' 13 4 ' The King's evil was supposed to be cured by the touch of the Sovereign of En^and. The first who touched for it was Edward the Confessor, 1058. In the reign of Charles II., this credulity had risen to such a height, that in 14 years 92,107 persons were touched, and according to Wiseman, the King's physician, they were nearly all cured I Queen Anne announced in the London OazetU^ March 12, 1712, her Royal intention to touch publicly for the cure ^ the eviL The custom was ultimately dropped by George L, 1714. * By statute 4 Jac. I., c. 5 (1607), drunkenness is punished with the forfeiture of 68., or sitting six hours in the stocks ; and there were many wholesome statutes passed in the reign of King James, which regulate the licensing of ale houses, and punish persons found tippling in them. Blackstone's Chmmeniariu^ Book iv*, e. 4, sec. 10. * The last statute against swearing and cursing is 19 Geo. 11^ c 81, which repeals all former ones, and orders that eveiy L 146 Bep^ of Phillip Greene, for swearinge, 3 4 Bee* of Anthony Pokon, for selling beare lesse than meajsure, 20 1700 Bec^ of Jonathan Skelton, for suffering tipling in his house on a Lorde's day, 10 John Morton, for two curses, 4 James Johnson Scott, for being drunk, 5 Monuments in the Old Chubch, The old Church, which was pulled down in 1777 to make room for the present one, contained many valuable monuments, especially an Altar one to the great William de Braose, which was erected under the arch which separated the Chancel from the South Aisle. It with many others was destroyed at the time of the re- building of the Church ; but the inscriptions on several of the monuments have been preserved in Budder, and in some of the Parish Begisters. These are given below together, with some of most remarkable in the present Church. Copies of aU the remaining inscriptions in the Parish labourer, soldier, or sailor, profanely sweaiiDg shall forfeit Is.; every other person under the degree of a gentleman, 2s.; and every gentleman or person of superior rank, ffs. Ibid.,, Book iv., c. 4, sec. 5. '•;% 147 Church at present, are given in the Appendix No. IIL On the left-hand entering the old Church was a little Chapel, wherein stood "a fair wall pieoe and livelj effigies of John Savage, Gent., in his sable robes. kneeUng." In the same Chapel lyeth the body of William Savage, Esq., the father of Charles Savage, Gent., " a great lover of antiquity, and a studious gentleman in Heraldrie." There is also another wall piece in memory of Mr. John Savage. Over Mr. Savage's seate, facing the pulpit, hangeth a large tablet, whereon is written in letters of gold : To the happy memory of Chaslbs Savage, of Broadway, in the County of Worcester, Esqre., and Elizabeth his wife, the daughter of Anthony Abington, of Dowdswell, Esqre.^ On a brass tablet let into a stone slab in the South Cloister of the present Church, having evidently been removed from the old one, is the following inscription : Hic JACET Franciscus Savaob FiLius QyALTERi Savaoe db Brod- WAT IK com. WiGORN. ARMIG. QUI OBI- rr 2o DIE March, ano. Doboni 167 1. Maria uxor ejus Filia Edhun- Di EsTCOURT Gen : obmt 26® DIE August Anno Dom. 1645. » Abel Wantner'i MS. Hist, of 148 In the old Churdh, on the West side, there was a monument to John Savage, who was re- presented kneeling before an Altar ; and this quaint inscription upon it in capital letters : Oar bodies all received of earth, Earth must againe them keepe, Uhtill the Lord shall raise them up, to life from deadly sleepe : Our souls aloft to Heaven shall mounts where death them cannot inresse ; Death only is a Dore to us, the true life to possesse; Our glofj here still vanishing, prone to decay* to &U, Shall after death be stablished, be made Angelicall. What then I what then ! Though Savage Death, our Savage thus hath slayne. Regard it not, 'tis nothing, for, it was with Christ to raigne. John Sayaob, Gknt, deoeas'd, the 28th Maye, Anno Dot 1608. In the present Church, On a handsome Monu* over the Yestiy door. ment on the South side M.S. of the Altar. Joannis Sitvage, Arm. Qui e vitk cessit, m.8. Decembris 19, Joannis Savage, AM. A.D. 1772. Yin innocni, probi, pii, Frauds Savage, Gen.. q^j yj^jj^ annos liz. OWit Oct 18, A.i>. 1769, M.64. Qbiit xvii. Mart mdccciU. EHzabeiha Savage, OUitNov. 14, A.D. 1777,iB.69. Eleanora Savage, Obiit Aug. 6, A.D. 1763, JB. 49. On a monumental tablet on the North side of the Chancel was this inscription:^ 149 . Eito fidelis nique ad mortem, at dabo tibi CdFooam Yitn. In Remembrance of tbat Grave Gentleman^ RiOHABD TaLBOTS, EsQ., Who, after a Pilgrimage of 67 years, Departed this Life, drd Aug., a.d. 1663. Eatherine his wife as a pledge of surviving Love hath erected [this monument] Senibus uxors est in januis juvenibus vero in insidiis. Attende tibi ipsi viator. On the South side of the Chancel, ''under a feire blew grave stone/' were interred the bodies of John Elton, of Tetbury, Graduated Doctor of Physick, and Joan, his wife, and Charles their youngest son.' In the old Church, upon a flat stone in the South aisle, was the following inscription :* Here lyeth y* body of Makt, the wife of Nathanisl Cbipps, Gknt, daughter of Samitbl Bubooxbe, of Sodburj, Gent, who departed thb life the ISth day of July, 1710, iBtatis suas 86. Her body earthly was, and to the earth Descended is, from whence it took its birdi ; Her soul from a more high original Mounted aloft> became AngelicaL Clog not her wings, then, with your dewy tears. On which she's raised above the starry spheres : Cease, husband ; children, cease ; ^ve Qod the pnuse. Which she now warbles in immortal layes. Also Margaret, the daughter of y* said Nathaniel and Margaret, departed y« life y« 13th of July, 1710. Here also lyeth the body of the aforesaid Nathaniel Cripps, * Wantner's History of OloucetUrMre, * Rudder, p. 782. 150 who departed thifl life the 23rd day of March, Anno Dom. 1739-40, ^tatia suae, 65. An epitaph in old Tetbuiy Church : See here ihi».plott for all her store, WiUi greedie throale still gapes for more ; For newlj now she has tomb'd in earth The bodj of Sam. Gastrbll, Gentile by birth, Bereft of life in the month of Sept' , One thousand, six hundred, and seventy four.^ In a vault under an old Church were found, in the year 1771, an amazing quantity of human bones, merely laid one upon another. The heap was about four feet in depth, eight feet in breadth, and eighteen feet in length ; they were tolerably sound, and must probably have been there for many hundred years, as tradition does not give us any information concerning them.* On the North side of the altar in the present Church, is the monument of the great bene£su^tor of this town, Sir William Romney ; a marble bust of Sir Wflliam is placed over the inscription, which is as follows : — '* This monument was erected in memory of St' William Romney, Kn^ , one of the Aldermen and Sheriffs of London, in the year of Our Lord, 1603, a native of Tetbury, and a great Bene&ctor to it, at the desire of John Wight, M.A., 36 years Vicar of the Parish, and a sincere lover of it, which he manifested by many Public Charities, as well ^ Paroch. Register No. 2. • MSS. note of the Rev> John Wight, Paroch. Reg. No. 2. 161 aa being Uie principAl BenefiMStor and Promoter of building this Church, which was opened Oct 7, 1781* The said John Wight departed this life at the age of 70 years, Nov. 24, 1777. Reader, encourage no unnecessary suits of law amongst thy neighbours, but always follow after the things that make for Peace ; be Public Spirited, and if thou art of sufficient ability, be sure to add some ornament to the House of God. Give some- thing to thy Poor Brother, to the Widow, and Fatherless. Amen. Underneath are the arms of Romney and Wight. The former are — ^Azure, on a bend cotised argent, three escalop shells, gules.^ The latter — Gules, a Chevron between three boars' heads, couped, or. On a tomb in the Church Yard : Here lieth the Bodie of William Packer, Who was to truth a Friende. He lived a godly life. And made a godly end. Sept. 11^. 1752, aged 61 years. On a small oval marble tablet, near the West door of the present Church : M. S. DeborsB Uxoris Jacobi Roche de Merriott de Comitatu Somersetensi Grenerosi, Quaa obijt quinto Die mensis Julij, A.D. MDOCXX, anno suas aetat xxix. Nee non Patricij eorum filij in&ntuli, qui obijt ultimo die ejusdem mensis et Anni. On the top are their arms, gules, three roaches in pale proper : underneath MoKapioi oi viKpoi oi cv jcvpcy airodvqr his me- mory produce the same effect as the observation of his virtues.'' This dictum of the great doctor. • Worka^ rol. ii.» p. 272, hy Arthur Murphy, 1792. 153 if generaUy carried into practice, would preserve us from many of the fulsome and laudatory in- scriptions which now disfigure so many of our Churches. That man would deserve well of his countiy- men who would persuade them to erect Christian memorials to their departed frienda Monuments, and the inscriptions upon them, should ever be strictly in accordance with the spirit of the place where they are erected. When we commit our beloved ones to the earth, in sure and certain hope of the general Besurrection at the last Great Day, should we not also seek to mark the spot» were they rest tUl the mom of the Besurrection, as the sleeping place of a Christian, of one, who, having for a time laid aside the burden of the body, awaits in hope the coming of his Lord to judgment 1 Surely it is not too much to ask that the monuments in English Churches should harmon- ize with the character of the sacred edifices, and the inscriptions on them accord with her doctrines ; yet how seldom is this the case ? How rare, till of late years, to find in any Churchyard the sym- bol of our redemption, the Holy Cross* erected over ' Crosses were yerj anciently fixed as carved monuments and grave stones. Among the laws of Kenneth, King of Scotland, a.d. 840, we meet with this ; Esteem every sepulchre or grave-stone sacred, and adorn it with the sign of the Cross, 154 the grave of those, who, if they were Christians, indeed, had daily borne it after their Lord. Yet, how common is it now to see in every Church- yard, the symbols wherewith the Pagans of old, marked the burial places of their dead, the inver- ted torch, to symbolize that all hope had fled ; think of this over the grave of a Christian, whose hope should be in his death 1 The sepid- chral urn, which in heathen times contained the ashes of those, whose bodies had been burnt after death ; think of this as a Christian memorial over one, whose body had been the temple of the Holy Ghost ! If Christian mourners for a moment allowed sudi thoughts as these to take possession of their minds, they could not permit the resting place of their beloved ones to be desecrated by these symbols of a heathen worship, a worship which delighted to honour, not the God who created and redeemed them, but the devil and his angels, who ever seeks to ruin and destroy them. The proper designs of a Christian epitaph is to exdte in the mind of the reader, penitential sorrow, or consolatory reflection. The tomb of a Christian should speak to the passer-by, of the uncertainty of life, of the blessedness of purity and holiness, and of the sure reward laid which take care you do not so much as tread upon. Gough's Sepulchral MonumeniSf p. 3^. 166 up in store for the godly. If such were the case, they being dead, would yet speak to us> would urge us to follow their example, would incite us to greater humility and watchfulness; as we passed by their silent tombs to enter the House of God, solemn thoughts would arise in oiu* hearts, we should remember that we were treading on holy ground, that around us rested the dust of Saints, waiting for the quickening breath of their Lord and Giver of life to awaken them to an immortality of bliss. Such are the thoughts which Christian memo- rials in a Churchyard might raise in our hearts ; and, therefore, it becomes the duty of every Christian to seek in his measure to render the graves of our departed ones, teachers of good to those who yet live. Each one, however humble, may bear his share in the good work. And we have good hope that such a spirit is even now arising in our land, as will, before many years elapse, altogether banish even the thought of erecting any symbol of heathenism in omr Church- yards. 156 CHAPTER IV. The Tbtbury Chabities. Scheme for Regulating the Tetbnry Charitj Estatei,— Abstract of Wills of Different BeneflMstors,— Sir William Bomney,— Sir Thomas Estcourt, — John Veisey, && The Charities of this town are very numerous, ^ were See Orammar Schcokj bj Nicholas Carlisle, vol. i., p. 460, 1818. N 178 men and traders, but is too little known in our land, especially in our country towns and cities/'* In 1632, the town purchased the Manor, Market Tolls, and Advowson of the Living, of Lord Berkeley, and thus established the School on a firmer ba^. Mes. Euzabetth Hodges, of Shipton Moyne, Gloucestershire, by will dated May 13, 1723, gave thirty pounds yearly, "for the augmenta- tion of the Charity Schools, which there were or should be in the town of Tetbury, for teaching poor children to read, write, and cast accounts, and making them the better capable of trades and callings for gaining their livelihood^' * The present trustees of Mra Hodges' Charity are, Thomas H. S. Sotheron Estcourt, Esq., M.P.; Robt. S. Holford, Esq., M.P.; Walter M. Paul, Esq.; and S. B. Brooke, Esq. The education formerly given at this School was of a much higher kind than it is at present. This is shewn by the rules of the School, re- quiring that the Master should be a graduate of Oxford, or Cambridge, and also from such men as Bishop Bisse, of Hereford, Dr. Trapp, Professor of Poetry at Oxford, and Oldham, the Poet, being educated at it. During the periods of the Great Bicbellion, when Dr. Tully (afterwards Principal * Sir William Romney's Will. » Mrs. Hodges' Will. 179 of S. Edmund's Hall, Oxford), was Master, it seems to have flourished greatly, and also for a century afterwards, till towards the end of the last century, it ceased entirely from want of funds. The following Ordinances of Tetbury School, dated " AnnoDom. 1623, 8' die Aprili," will shew what was the character of the education formerly given at the School. "Constitutions and ordinances made and ap- pointed for y* Schoole of Tetbury, to be required by y* Thirteen, and observed by y* Schoolmaster that shall always supply the same : — 1. First, It is ordained y* y* Schoolmaster shall be chosen by common consent of y' Thirteen, and y* no one person whatsoever shall oversway y* same. 2. Y^ none shall be thereunto chosen except he be a Master or Batchelor of Arts at y* least, in one of the Universities, and be approved of for his sufficiency by two Preachers y* have skill to examine him, and to w*^ two Preachers he shall be accountable, and y* Thirteen, by them to be satisfied, as also to approve himself after- wards, by an honest and sober life and conversa- tion befitting his calling. 3. It is ordained y* y^ Schoolmaster shall re- ceive into the Schoole, and not refuse any of y* children y* are of y* burrough of Tetbury, being first able to read the Bible in English in any good sort. 180 4. That he shall, being required, teach the children to read, cypher, and cast aocompts, or procure one y* shall do it under him, whereby they shall be fitted for apprentices.. 5. That he shall teach the Latin tongue by the use of Lottie's grammar, and such ordinary books as are most approved in Schools, and in like manner for the Greek, by such grammars and authors as are most usual, and not by any quaint^ strange, or new devices of his own. 6. That he shall not read unto the Schollars any of y* obscene odes, satyres, or epigrams of Juvenal, Martial, or Horace, or any other, but pass them over, choosing y* best in the same authors, and in others; and y* he shall not at all read in the Schoole Ovid de arte amandi nor [ *] but utterly omit. 7. That he shall, every Saturday, cathechize y* SchoUers in y* grounds' of the religion now taught and maintained in the Church of England, and out of some approved catechism, acquaint- ing them with y* Scriptures withalL 8. That he shall cause y* prayer now used every morning to be continued by y* schoUers, with the reading a chapter in course, and shall not suffer swearing, cursing, or any other rudeness among them to his best endeavour. 9. That none unless he hath been an inhabitant * The words are illegible in the MS. 181 in the burrough of Tetbury, by the space of three years at the least, shall have any benefit or pri- vflege by y* Schoole, without leave first had and obtained for y* same, by y* Thirteen or y* greatest part. 10. That y* Schoolmaster shall be constantly resident, nor take upon him any cure out of the towne, and shall bring with him to Church all his schollers, causing 'em to write sermons and to behave themselves quietly and reverently during the time of Divine Service, and to give an accompt of their profitting to him, and he shall bestow some time in the Schoole every Lord's day, in exercising them in religious duties, y* our youth may learn to know and fear the Lord."* The Grammar School was formerly held in a room over the Church porch, till the Church was rebuilt m 1777-81. A School was for a long time carried on in the town, separate firom the Grammar School (in virtue of Mrs. Hodges' charity), where fifteen boys were taught to read, write, and cast accounta It is now merged in the Town SchooL In 1836, a School room for boys and girls was erected at the West end of the town, at the cost of £474 3s. 2d. which was obtained as foUows : ^ This was transcribed from the orijpnal by John Wight, Vicar. 182 By subscription Grant from the Treasury Grant from the National Society Feoffees Ditto £ 181 a. 17 d. 145 10 100 37 6 2 474 3 2 The principal subscribers to the Schook were, the Rev. John Frampton, the Vicar, £20 ; Lord Dude, Mrs. Paul ; R C. Paul, W. M. Paul, Jacob Wood, Thomas Poulton, Thomas Witchell, John Cook, Esquires ; Mrs. Savage, and Mrs. Edwards, £10 each; J. T. Paul, Joseph Wood, William Taylor, Benjamin Wood, Hugh Vaughan, Thomas Birch, Samuel A. Saunders, Esqrs., £5 eacL In 1850, the Boys' School was enlarged, and Schools for girls and infants, with class rooms to each, were added, at the expense of £621 7s. 6d. obtained as follows : — From Committee of Council By Subscription ... Feoffees by Donation . 182 1. 139 7 6 300 621 7 8 Among the principal subscribers were, R S. Holford, Esq., £50 ; T. G. Bucknall Estcourt, Esq., £20 ; William Brookes, Esq., £10 ; the Rev. John Frampton, R C. Paul, W. M. Paul, J. T. Paul, C. W. Paul, R C. Paul, jimr., Jacob Wood, 183 Joseph Wood, and Maurice Maskeljnie, Esquires, £5 each. The management of the boys' and girls' school is in the hands of the Vicar and Feoffeea The management of the in&nt school is in the hands of a Committee, which at present consist of the Vicar, William Brookes, Esq., R C. Paul, Esq., and Mr. Edwin Cook. The infant Schoolmistress is appointed by this Committee. The Schoolmaster and Mistress by the Feoffeea The boys' School which is one of the best, if not the best in Gloucestershire, is under the efficient and able superintendence of Mr. J. W. Keillor, the present Schoolmaster; who, during the last twenty years, has shewn unwearied diligence and activity in forwarding in every way the moral and intellectual interests of those committed to his care. An industrial department is attached to the boys' School. The salary of the Schoolmaster is, on the whole, about £120 ; that of the Schoolmistress, £50 ; And of the Infant Schoolmistress, £40. The number of bojrs on the books of the School, who are educated gratuitously, is. 166 And the average daily attendance throughout the year 163 The number of girls on the books (who pay Id. a week for their education,) is . .100 And the average daily attendance .98 184 The number of infants on the books (who also pay Id. per week,) is . . . 182 And the average daily attendance .140 The pence collected from the Girls' School amounts, on an average, each year, to £15 ; and from the In&nts, £17 lOs. All the Schools have been under Government Inspection since 1846, and the salaries of the Schoolmaster and Schoolmistress are augmented by the usual grants for pupil teachers. Lives of Celebrated Persons Connecied WITH THE Town. John Oldham, the poet, was the son of a Nonconformist minister, who had a congregation at Nimeaton. He was bom at Shipton, near Tetbury, on the 9th of August^ 1653 ; and, after having received the rudiments of his education at home, was phtoed at Tetbury School, where he remained for two year& He was indebted for to rtep in hi. 4nua«y c»,«er to ^ AId«^ of Bristol, who had a son at the School, anid waa anxious that the boy should have the advantage of reading with young Oldham, from which it may be inferred that the latter had abready shewn more than average diligence and ability. Oldham made rapid progress at Tetbury ; and in June, 1670, was entered at S. Edmund's Hail, Oxford, ^J 186 probably on account of Dr. Thomas Tully, who had been Master of Tetbury School, being then Prrndpal of that College. His College studies were superintended by the Rev. Mr. Stephens, who early discovered his genius. He made great progress in Greek and Latin. His favourite authors were the poets ; indeed, so incessantly did he study them that, at last, poetry took com- plete possession of his time and thoughts. In May, 1674, he took his B.A. degree, and shortly, against his own wishes, left the University, being summoned home by his father. He afterwards became usher at the Free School of Croydon, in Surrey, and remained there till 1678, when he became tutor to the two grandsons of Sir Edward Thurland, a Judge, residing in the neighbourhood of Eeigate. He remained there till 1680, when, for a short time, he became tutor to the son of Sir William Hicks ; not long afterwards he was offered the office of Private Chaplain to liis household, by the Earl of Kingston, which offer he refused, but accepted his invitation to visit him as a guest at Holmes Pierpont, in Nottinghamshire. He had not long enjoyed the seclusion of this retreat when he was seized by an attack of the small-pox, and died on the 9th of December, 1683, in the 30th year of his age. The Earl of Kingston attended as chief mourner at his funeral, and afterwards erected a monument over his grave. In appear- ance Oldham was tall and slender, with disagree- 186 able features, a long face, a prominent nose, and a sarcastic expression in his eyes. His chief works are his Satires^ especially four against the Jesuits. As a satirist, Dryden esteemed him nearer to his This panefiTVnc is sustained by Mr. Hallam, who «^ Lt^ldha^ «. supJor in hiB «tir» to Marvell, ranks, perhaps, next to Dryden.*' The affecting lines in which Dryden laments his early death are given below.^ Farewell, too little and too lately known, Whom I began to tliink and call my own ; For sure our souls were near aUied, and thine Cast in the same poetic mould as mine. One common note on either lyre did strike, And knaves and fools we both abhorred alike ; To the same goal did both our studies drive, The last set out the soonest to arrive. Thus Nisus fell upon the slipping place, While his young friend performed and won the race. I early ripe! to they abundant store : What could advancing age have added more ? It might (what Nature never gives the young,) Have taught the numbers of thy native tongue ; But satire needs not these, and wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line : A noble error, and but seldom made. When poets are by too much force betrayed. Thy generous fruits, though gathered ere their time, Still showed a quickness ; and maturing time ^ Abridged from his Ltfcy by Bobert Bdl, in his Armotated Edition of the English Poets. 187 But mellows what we write to the dull sweets of rhyme. Once more hail and farewell. Farewell, then young, But ah I too short, Marcellus of our tongue ; Thy hrows with ivy and with laurels hound, But fiite and gloomy night encompass thee around.** ^ PhtTiTP Bisse, Bishop of Hereford, was bom at Oldbury-on-the-Hill, near Tetbury, and was educated first at Tetbury School, and afterwards at Win- chester, and New College, Oxford. He was ad- mitted as a Founder's Kin Fellow of that College, on the 8th of June, 1686. He took his degree of B.A. in 1690, M.A. in 1693, and B. and D.D. in 1705. In 1706 he vacated his Fellowship by marrying Bridget, daughter of Thomas, Duke of Leeds, and widow of Charles Fitz Charles Earl of Plymouth, (a natural son of King Charles II., by Mrs. Catiierine Pegge,) to whom he had been Chaplain. He was consecrated Bishop of S. David's, on the 9th of November, 1710, and translated to Hereford, in 1713. His wife died on the 9th of May, 1718, and the Bishop survived her only three years, and died at Westminster, on the 6th of September, 1721, and was buried in his Cathedral, where he had erected a monument for her and himself A portrait of him hangs in New College HaU. He was a benefexjtor to that College, having bequeathed to it one thousand pounds. His character is most favourably described in his epitaph, (a copy of which is to be seen in the ^ Diyden's Wcrksj edited bjr Robert BeO, vol. iii., p. 150. 188 Bodleian library,) and much to the same effect is the account given of him in the newspapers of of the day. « On Wednesday, September 6th, died at the house of Lord Willoughby of Brook, Dean of Windsor, in Queen Square, Westminster, the Bight Eevd. Father in God, Philip, Lord Bishop of Hereford. A person most universaUy lamented for his sanctity and sweetness of hia manners, of clear honour, integrity, and steadiness in all times to the Constitution, in Church and State, of excellent judgment, and penetration in most kinds of learning, a great benefactor to his Cathedral Church, and especially to his Palace, which last he hath in a manner rebuilt/' He was the brother of Dr. Thomas Bisse, Chan- cellor of Hereford, and Author of " The Beauty of Holiness in the Booh of Common Prayer!* Thomas Tully, the son of George TuUy, was bom in S. Mary^s Parish, Carlisle, on the 22nd July, 1620, and educated at Barton Kirk, in Westmoreland. He entered at Queen's College, Oxford, in 1634, and afterwards became a Fellow, and well known disputant there. In 1642 he was created M.A., and soon after Oxford being garrisoned, he became Master of the Grammar School, at Tetbury ; after the surrender of the garrison, he returned to Oxford, and became a celebrated Tutor and Preacher there. In 1657 he was admitted B.D., and soon afterwards was made Principal of S. Edmimd's Hall. Aft«r the 189 restoration of Charles IL, he was created D.D. by diploma^ and appointed Chaplain to the King, and Bector of Grittleton, Wilts. In April, 1673, he was made Dean of Bipon. He was a pious man, in many ways very learned. He was of severe morals, and puritanically inclined, being a strict Calvinist. He wrote against Bishop Bull's Harmonia ApostoUcOy and also against Baxter's AfhorismSy and had a long controversy with the latter. He died at Grittleton, January 1 4th, 1675, and was buried in the Chancel of the Church there. His principal works were : PrcBcipuorum TheologicB capitum Enchiridion didoicticum. London, 1665-68. Appendicula prcujtica De Ccmd Domini (printed with the Enchiridion.) Justijicatio Paulina sine operihus ex mente EcdesicB AnglicancB omniumque Rdiqaorum qucB ReJormatcB audiuntj assert a^ et iUvstrata? Oxon, 1674. Thomas Gobe. He was bom in 1631, of an ancient and honourable family, at Alderton, in County of Wilts, at which place his ancestors, who formerly resided at Whitleigh, near Melkes- ham, had lived 300 yeara He was educated at Tetbury Grammar School, under the Bev. Thomas Tv^y ; and in May, 1674, entered as 8 Wood's Athena, hj PhUip Bliss, 1817, vol. iii., p. r055. 190 a Commoner at Magdalen College, Oxford, under John King, Fellow, as Tutor ; afterwards, Mr. Thomas TuUy, of Queen's College, was his tutor. He took his B.A. d^ree, and entered at Lincoln's Inn, but after a short time retired to Alderton, where he Hved the greater part of his life. He became very celebrated for his knowledge of heraldiy and antiquities. He served the office of High SherijBf of Wilts in 1681, and died March 31st (Easter Monday,) 1684, and was buried in the Church at Alderton. He left behind him a number of MSS., besides his published works, together with a choice collection of heraldic books. His principal works were : Nomenclator Geogi*aphicu8y Oxon, 1667. Catalogus in certa Capita^ seu Classes Alphor hetico ordine concinnatuSy plerorumque omnium authorum (tarn antiqtcorum^ quam recentiorumj qui de re Heraldicd^ Latine, GaUicey Italy Hispan., Germ.y Anglicd scripserunt. Oxon, 1668. Loyalty Displayed and Falsehood Unmasked^ or a just Vindication of Thomas Gore^ Esq.y High Sheriff of County of WiltSy in a letter to a friend. London, 1681, 4to.® Joseph Trapp was bom at Cherington, in 1679, of which parish his fether was Rector. He was educated at ^etbury School, and at Wadham CoUege, Oxford. He was admitted ^ Wood's Athewgy vol. iv., p. 132. 191 B.A. 1699, and M.A. 1702. He was appointed Professor of Poetry in 1708, which office he held till 1718. In 1720 he was Rector of Dauntsey, Wilts, and in 1 727 was created D.D. by diploma. In 1 733 he was appointed Rector of Hartlington, Middlesex, and in 1734 Lecturer of S. Martin in the Fields. He died in 1747. He wrote Notes on the Gospels^ and Prcdectiones Poetuxt, in 3 vols. Dr. Trapp was a hard student^ and published a great variety of theological, contro- versial, political, and poetical writinga He wrote also jtEdes Badmintonianw^ a poem most humbly presented to His Grace Henry, Duke of Beaufort, &a, and to Her Grace Mary, Dutchess Dowager of Beaufort, &a, upon their magnificent and delight- ful seat in Gloucestershire. London, 1701, folio.* ScROPE Berdmore Davies, the son of Rev. Richard Davies, Vicar of Tetbury, (firom 1 792 to 1825,) was bom 1781, and educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge. He took his degree of B.A. in 1806, and M.A. in 1809, and was for many years Fellow of King's CoU^je.' He was a most in- timau &i«.d of Lorf BjTOn^^o dedicated hi. poem of Parisina to him in the following words : **To Scrope Berdmore Davies, Esq., the following poem is inscribed, by one who has long admired his 1 H. J. Rose's Bioff. Did. ; Anecdotes of Britkh Topography^ p. 179. ' See Oraduaii Cantabriffiensee curei, J. Romillj, 1856. 192 talents and valued his friendship/' A great mis- fortune happened to Byron in 1811, by the death of his dear CoDege friend, C. S. Matthews, Fellow of Downing,' who was drowned whilst bathing in the Cam, on the 2nd of August. Bjrron lost his mother about the same time. The following passage of a letter written at this time by Byron to Scrope Davies, will show the terms of intimacy on which they stood : " My dearest Davies, — Some curse hangs over me and mina My mother lies a corpse in the house ; one of my best Mends is drowned in a ditch. What can I say, or think, or do? I received a letter from him the day before yes- terday. My dear Scrope, if you can spare a moment do come down to me : I want a friend. Matthews' last letter was written on Friday ; on Saturday he was not. In ability who was like Matthews ? How did we all shrink before him. You do me but justice in saying I would have risked my paltry existence to have preserved his. This very evening did I mean to write, inviting him, as I invite you, my very dear friend, to visit me. What will our poor Hobhouse feel? HiB letters breathe but of Matthewa Come to me, Scrope ; I am almost desolate, left almost alone in the world!"* > B.A. 1806 ; Members Prizeman 1807 ; Fellow of Downing 1808 ; M.A. 1809. OradwUi Cantabrigienm. < Byron's fForib, toI. i. p. 65 ; Murray, 1839. 193 The Mr. C. S. Matthews^ thus passionately la- mented over by Byron, was the son of John Matthews, Esq., M.P. for Herefordshire in the Parliament of 1802-6. Another anecdote respecting Scrope Davies and Byron occurs in connection with the first four lines of the sixty-first Stanza of Beppo : « Crush'd was Napoleon bj the Northern Thor, Who knocked his army down with icj hammer ; Stopp'd by the ekmentSy like a whaler, or A blmidering novice in hb new French grammar.' " When BrummeU was obliged to retire to France, he knew no French, and having obtained a grammar for the purpose of study, our friend Scrope Davies was asked what progress he had made in French. He responded * that Brummell had been stopped, like Buonaparte in Russia, by the dements/ I have put this pun into Beppo, which is ' a fisdr exchange and no robbery ; ' for Scrope made his fortune at several dinners (as he owned himself,) by repeating occasionally, as his own, some of the buffooneries with which I had encountered him in the morning." ^ Raikes, in his Journal^ says of him : " Davies was the intimate friend of Lord Byron ; and, as he lived much in his society at one time, has naturally imbibed many of his ideaa He is a classical scholar, with veiy good natural abilities." • ' Byron's Diary ^ 1821 ; WorhSj vol. ii., p. 342. » Journal May 24, 1834, vol. ii., p. 114. O 194 He was an intimate friend of Mr. J. C. Hobhouse, (now Lord Broughton,) and the late Earl Grey. During the latter part of his life he resided chiefly at Paris, where he died, rather suddenly, in May, 1852. He was never married, and at the time of his death was Senior FeUow of King's CoUege, Cambridge. 195 CHAPTER VL History of Families Connected with THE Town. EstooQTt of Estooart,— Hantloy of Boxwell,— Holford of Weston Birt,-— Paal of Highgrove,— Savage of Tetbnrj. The history of &milies connected with any particular locaUty. by long residence and per- manent association in its welfare, must always be a matter of interest to those who reside in its neighbourhood In the following chapter, by the kind assistance of leading members of the &inilies whose histories are here recorded, I am enabled to place before my readers authentic pedigrees of the principal families who, in times past, or at the present day, are intimately connected with the town of Tetbury. They have been compiled with much research and care, and in every case revised by a member of the fiimily, whose par- ticular history is related, so as to render them thoroughly correct and trustworthy. One of these families has been for more than five centuries permanently resident in the immediate neigh- bourhood ; during which long period they have ever commanded the esteem and respect of all 196 who knew them ; whilst others, who at a former period were closely connected with the town, have now ceased to reside in it. The two re- majning families, whose history is here given, are at the present time intimately concerned in its prosperity. So that the history of all will, I trust, be acceptable in no slight degree to my readers. At the end of the pedigrees will be foxmd extracts from the Parish Registers, relative to the families of Savage, Talboys, and GastrelL ESTCOURT OF ESTOOURT. This ancient family has been settled in Glou- cestershire, and been possessed of lands in the Parish of Shipton Moyne, as appears by deeds at Estcourt, since 1300. The first of whom mention is recorded in these deeds is Walter BE LA EsTOOXJRT, who held an estate at Shipton, in this County. He married Margaret ,' and died about 1325, and was succeeded by his son. ^ These Christian names are obtained from old wills and deeds in which the surnames are not mentioned. I i 1 1 'i i i t it "i "i 'i \ 'I tX • • • • • • • • n ^ ( >■ '^ '* I 1 1 'i 1 1 Anns of Ettconrt ♦^ 197 Symon de la Estcourt, who married, 1. Margaret de la Woodemill. 2. Johanna . He had four sons, Walter, Richard, William, and John. He was succeeded by his son, Walter de la Estcourt, (living in 1373,) who married Juliana , and was succeeded by his eldest son, John de la Estcourt, who married Alice, heiress of the Beauboys, of Shipton Moyne, and Fairwood, in Dorsetshire, and thence obtained a separate estate at Shipton. His wife survived him, and married, second, John Wynter, of Wot- ton-\inder-Edge. He was succeeded by his son, John de la Estcourt, who married, 1. Eleanor. 2. Margaret. He had two sons by his first wife, Eleanor, 1. John. 2. William, d. a p. John de la Estcourt married Elizabeth Sey- mour, and had issue, 1. Thomas de la Estcourt. 2. Walter de la Estcourt* This John obtained a pardon from K Richard III., for some offence committed against him. (The original document is now in the possession of Mr. Sotheron Estcourt.) ' WiLUAM EsTCOUBT, Warden of New College, Oxford, in 1429, was son of Walter de la Estcourt. He was bom at Shipton, was admitted Scholar of New College, June 5, 198 Thomas de la Estcoubt married, 1. Catherine, daughter of Richard Ellyott, Serjeant-at-Law ; 2. Catherine, daughter of Bichard Hall. By his firet wife he had issue. Edmond de la Estcoubt, who married Johanna, daughter of William Button, of , Wiltshire, and had issue, i Thomas de la Estcourt, married Emma Asoough. He was a Welsh Judge, and a handsome monument is erected to him in Shipton Church. He had issue, 1. Thomas, knighted by E. Jamed I., Nov. 17, 1607. He married Mary, d. of William Savage, Esq., of Elmsley Castle, Worcestershire. He was M.P. for Glouces- tershire, and died in 1624, at Cirencester, of the Plague, whilst on his return from London from attending Parliament. His case became 1400, and Fellow, June 5, 1402. In 1417, he was appointed by the College, Vicar of Writtle, in Essex, which he held till 1425. In 1429, he was elected Warden of New College, which he resigned in 1435. He was also a Canon of Salisbuiy. In the papers of the Privy Council, men- *^e2SSi?J 7«hS" tion is made of ^'Maister John Estcourt," brother of the Warden of New College, who was employed as Ambassador by Henry IV. firom 1405 to 1427, on four different embassies. • Tbis to the lixe of the origlBsl, ^rtiidi Is of sUver, and in the posMnion of Mr. Sotheron Ettoonrt 199 a precedent to shew that a member of Par- liament is compellable to serve, if elected.' 2. Edmund married, first, Mary, d. and co-heir of Kichard Pateshall, of Cricklade ; and secondly, Mary, daughter of Thos. FoUiott, of Pirton, in Worcestershire, by whom he had two sona 1. Thomaa 2. Edmond. ' See Hatsell's Precedents. He was buried at Shipton Mbyne Church, where is the following inscription on the Monument erected to his memory. *^ Vita introitus Mortis. Mors ^ternitatis. Death foUoweth life, life death ; when men would die, Their buriale is a new nativitie. Then gentle reader call not this a tomb, But of a second life the happy womb. Here rest the bodies of Sr^ Thomas Estcourt, of the Manor of EsTCOCRT, in Shipton Mojne, in this County, Knight ; and of Dame Mart his wife, the daughter of William Satagb, of Elmly Castle, in the County of Worcester, Esq. He was a pillar of this Country, and much honored and beloved for his Wisdome and Hospitality : he lived religiously, and (in his retume from the Parliament., being then one of the Knights for this County,) died at Cirencester, the 4th of July, A^ Dni. 1624. In whose memory his foresaid wife caused this Monument to be erected. Thy houre-glasse is first run, and there remaines In mine, but a small part of falling graincs ; Thou wcr't my leader to this hallowed place, And I come afU^r, though with slower pace ; My voyage done, here I my rest will take. And in this bed, sleepc wit^i thee and awukc." 200 u. Giles de la Estcourt, of the City of Salis- bury, married Elizabeth Webb, and had issue, 1. (Sir) Edward Estcourt, of the City of Salisbury, who married Mary, d. of Sir John Glanvil, of Tavistock, Devon, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas. 1. Honor, married, first, to Thomas, son of Sir G. Monpeson, Kt. ; secondly, to Thomas Harding. 2. Mary, married James Thurbarme, of New Romney, in Kent. iii George EBtcourt. married Joane Steede. and had issue. i Edmond, married Maiy Bernard, and had issue, 1. George, and several daughters. iL John, married Grace Lygon, and had issue, 1. Edmund, and other children, iv. Richard Estcourt married Anne Wilcox, and had issue, 1. Edmimd Estcourt, married to Jane, daughter of Sir G. Snig, one of the Barons of the Exchequer, and had issue, 1. Thomas. 3. Edmond. 5. John. 2. Richard. 4. Georga 6. William* 2. Thomas. 3. Richard, married Agnes, daughter of Sir G. Ive. 4. Jasper, married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir J Kt., and had issue, a daughter, 201 Eleanor, married to Rev. Thomas Wor- borough, Rector of S. Michaers, Gloucester. 6. Cicely, married to William Poole. 6. Mary, married to Richard Guynett. 7. Joan, married to Thomas Blanchard. 8. Elizabeth, married to Toby Chapman.* Giles Estconrt^ of the Newnton and Salisbury branch of this &mily, was created a baronet on the 17th of March, 1626-7. He married Ann, daughter of Sir Robert Mordaunt, Bart., of Little Massingham in Norfolk; and was succeeded by his son, Sir Giles Estcourt^ who died unmarried on his travels, near Lepanto, in Greece, in 1675, and was succeeded by his brother, William, who was killed at the Devil's Tavern, London, by Sir Henry St. John,* in 1684. At his death this title * From this line are descended the Branch of Estconrt settled at Pinkney. ^ This qaarrel occurred Dec. 20tb, 1684, and is noticed by Evelyn in his Diary, Bishop Bomet mentions the story thus : That in 1684 a yonng gentleman of noble family (Sir Heniy St John, the fisUher of Queen Anne's secretary,) being at supper with a large party, a sudden quarrel arose between him and another gentleman (Sir William Estcourt,) warm words passed, and swords were drawn. Three persons were en- gaged, one of whom was killed on the spot ; the other two were indicted for the murder. It was uncertain by whom the &tal wound was given ; nor did the proof against either amount to more than manslaughter. Yet Sir Henry St John waa advised to confess the indictment, and let sentence pass for murder. He was threatened wiih the utmost rigour of the 202 became extinct, and the estate of Newnton passed to his sisters, and was bequeathed by the last survivor to her cousin Edmund, of Burton Hill, upon whose death it passed, with his estates of Shipton and Lasborough, to Thomas, the son of Matthew Estcourt, of Cam. Walteb, the son of Thomas Estcourt of Ship- ton, who died in 1 725, lefl the estate to Thomas, the son of Edmund Estcourt, of Saloombe, in Hertfordshire. He died Oct. 6th, 1746, aged 49, and left the estate to his brother Edmund, who died in 1750, and left the estate to Thomas, the son of Matthew Estco\n:t, of Cam. law if he neglected to follow this advice ; if he complied he was promised a pardon. He complied, and was con- victed, but found that his pardon was to be purchased bj paying £1,600. One half of this the King converted to his own use, and bestowed the remainder on two ladies then high in favour. This is the Bishop's story. It appears, however, that after hu conviction a doubt arose as to whether the King could pardon him. The matter was much debated ; and Bishop Barlow wrote one of his Casta of Conseiencey 8vo., 1692, on the subject, and determines it in the affirmative* It is said that, to obviate all doubts, the King granted him a reprieve ; in confirmation of this, no pardon seems to have been enrolled. The reprieve was for a long term of years, which the extreme old age to which he attained (ninety,) rendered it not improbable that he may have sur- vived. Amongst the records at the Rolls Chapel, is a resti- tution of the estates of Sir Henry St. John, forfeited to the Crown by his feloniously killing and murdering Sir William £stcourt (See NoUs ami Qaeriea^ 2nd Series, vol. ii., p. 372.) 203 Matthew Ebtoourt, of Cam, married Lydia Hailing, and had issue, Matthew, who died s. p. ; Thomas, of whom hereafter; Edmund, Solicitor to the Excise, who died in 1714 ; Edward, D.D., in holy orders. Rector of Long Newnton and Did- marton; he died 17th Sept, 1802, aged 51, and was buried at Shipton Moyne ; Lydia, who died a. p., in 1804, and waa buried at Cam ; Esther who also died a p., 1785, and was buried at Shipton. Thomas Estoourt married, 6th Oct., 1774, Jane, daughter of James, second Viscount Grim- ston (by Mary his wife, d. of John AskeU Bucknall, Esq., of Oxhey, in Hertfordshire.) She died Feb. 3rd, 1829, aged 80, and left issue, i Thomas, of whom hereafter. iL Edmund William, bom 18th April, 1782; M.A. of Oriel College, Oxford, in holy orders ; Rector of Long Newnton and Shipton Moyne. He married Bertha Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Wyatt^ Esq., of Wargrove, Berks ; and had issue, Edgar Edmund, Matthew Hale, Chas. Wyatt, Arthur Harbottle, Mary Jane. Mr. Estcourt died I7th May, 1856. i. Harriett Jane Bucknall, died s. p., 2dth July, 1839. iL Charlotte, of the Priory, Long Newnton. Mr. Estcourt was M.P. for Grickdale, and died Dec. 2nd, 1818, aged 70. He was succeeded by his son Thomas Grimston Estcourt, who as- sumed, in 1824, the name of Bucknall, in addition 204 to his &mily name, and married 12th May, 1800, Eleanor, daughter and oo-heiress of James Sutton, Esq., of New Park, Devizes, (she died June 23rd, 1829, aged 49,) and had issue : L Thomas Henry Sutton, bom 4th April, 1801. Educated at Harrow, and Oriel Col- lege, Oxford ; RA. 1823 ; M.A. 1826. KP. for Marlborough from 1829 to 1832; for Devizes from 1835 to 1844 ; and for North Wilts since that date. He married, in 1830, Lucy Sarah, daughter of Admiral Frank Sotheron, M.P., of Kirklington, Notts, whose name he assumed, by sign manual, in 1839, and re-assumed his pa- ternal name, by sign manual, in 1855. Mr. Sotheron Estcourt is a captain in the Boyal Wilts Yeomanry Cavalry, and magistrate for Wilts and Gloucester. ii James Bucknall, bom 12th July, 1802. He was educated at Harrow and Sandhurst, and in 1820 entered the army as ensign, in the 44th Foot, fix)m which he immediately exchanged into the 43rd light Infantry. He obtained Ins lieu- tenancy in 1824, and his captaincy in 1825, both by purchase. In 1834 he accompanied Colonel Chesney on his Euphrates expedition, as second in command He obtained his major- ity by purchase, in 1836, and in August, 1837, married Caroline, daughter of Kt. Hon. Beginald Pole Carew, of Antony, Cornwall. In 1838 he was ordered to Canada; and in 1839 206 gazetted lieut-Colonel, for his services on the Euphrates. In January, 1843, he was ap- pointed by the Secretary of State, British Com- missioner to settle the boundary line between the United States and British America, from the Bay of Fundy to the River St. Lawrence, which arduous task he successfrdly accomplished in three years. From 1848 to 1852 he was M.P. for Devizes. On the breaking out of the Russian war, he was gazetted Adjutant- Greneral of the Crimean army, and in the Brevet of 1854 was appointed Major-GeneraL He was in close attendance on Lord Baglan at Alma ; accompanied him in his celebrated flank march to Balaklava, and attended him from dayUght on the battle field of Likermann. Through the trying winter of 1854-55, he faithfully performed his duty ; and without retiring a day from his post, discharged the onerous duties devolving on him till the 20th of June, when unmistakeable symptoms of cholera appeared, and he expired on the morn- ing of the 24th, in the presence of his wife and sister, four days before the death of his friend and chiel^ Lord Baglan. A fortnight after the news of his death reached England, his name was gazetted as one of those on whom Her Majesty would have conferred a K.C.B., had he survived. His widow has since, by special command of Her Majesty, assumed that 206 rank which she would have been entitled to, had her husband survived to enjoy the honor which he so justly earned iiL Edmund Hiley, bom 22nd November, 1803. M.A. of Merton College, Oxford, in holy orders ; Rector of Eckington, Derbyshire, Mar- ried, 16th April, 1830, Ann, daughter of Sir John Lowther Johnston, Bart., of Westerhale, County Dumfiries, and has issue, i. George Thomas, bom 1840. ii. Charlotte Eleanor. Married in 1853, Rev. Fred. Gipps, Vicar of Corbridge, Nor- thumberland, iii. Jane. iv. Gertrude. Married, 1856, Rev. Thos. Golightly, of Bodington, Northampton, now Rector of Shipton Moyne, Gloucestershira V. Isabella. vii. Evelyn, vi. Clara. viii. Eatherine. iv. Walter Grimston, bom 16th May, 1807. Commander, R.N. Died of fever contracted on the coast of Africa, whilst in command of H.M.8. Eclair, Sept. 16th, 1845.* V. William John, bom 17th May, 1812. In holy orders ; M.A. of Balliol College, Oxford ; Rector of Long Newnton, Wilts. Married, in * A monument has been erected to hia memoiy in the Chapel of H.M. Dockyard, Portsmonih, by his brother Officers and Friends, on which is the following inscription : 207 1848, Mary, daughter of Rev. John Drake, and has issue a daughter, Eleanor. vi. Edward Dugdale, bom 6th Feb., 1818, Bar- rister-at-law, and M.A. of Balliol Collie, Oxford. L Eleanor. Married, in 1836, the Right Hon. Henry Unwin Addington, nephew of first Vis- count Sidmouth. iL Mary Ann. Thomas G. B. Estoourt, who was M.P. for Devizes, firom Jan. 1805 to 1826, and for the Sacred to the Memory OF Commaader W. G. B. Estcourt, Late in command of Her Majestjr's steam sloop Eclair, who died on the 16th of September, 1845, Aged 38 Years, On passage fix)m Bona Vista to Madeira, firom fever contracted on the Coast of Afirica, while employed in the suppression of the Slave Trade. His Brother Officers and Friends, to whom he had become endeared by many virtues, have erected this Tablet to record the deep sense of their loss, and perpetuate the memory of his worth. With Commander Estcourt perished 65 Officers and Men, in the short period of two months. Is not this the &st that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go firee, and that ye break every yoke t Isaiah 58, 6. University of Oxford,' from that date till 1847, died July 25th, 1853, and was succeeded by his son, THoa H. S. SoTHBRON EsTCOURT, the present owner of Estcourt Arms. — £rmine on a chief indented, gules, three estoiles, or. Crest. — Out of a mural crown, azure, a demi eagle, with wings displayed, ppr. beaked, or. Seat. — Estcourt, Tetbury, Gloucestershire. HiTNTLEY OF BOXWELL CoURT. This family is one of the oldest in Gloucester- shire. GwYTHENOC, or Wythb- NOC, came from Brittany to England with William the Conqueror. He held the Castle and Barony of Mon- mouth. He founded the Abbey of Monmouth, and died ante 1086. His brother Baderon, who came into England with Wythenoc, had five sons : *™ "* """'^ i. WllxiAM Prrz Baderon, Baron of Mon- mouth, mentioned in Domesday, Uving in 1119. il Jevan. 209 iii Koaps or Robert, who had a son, John Fitz Robert. iv. Pagan, who had a son, Thomas Fitz Pagan. V. Owen the Slender. William Fitz Baderon had issue, Baderon db Monmouth, Baron Monmouth, living in 1128, married Roesia, daughter of Gilbert de Clare, and sister of Strongbow, Earl of Pembroke, and had issue, L Gilbert de Monmouth, Baron Monmouth, (died about 1290.) He married Bertha, daugh- ter of Philip de Braose, and had issue, i. John de Monmouth, Baron of Monmouth, married, first, Cecily, daughter and co-heiress of William Walleran ; and secondly, Agnes, daughter and co-heiress of Wm. de Musgros, and had issue, L John de Monmouth, who married, firsts Maud, daughter of David, Earl of Huntingdon, and had issue, a daughter ; married, secondly, Catherine . He died before 1274. ii. Richard de Wyesham, an- cestor of the Wyeshams. ii. James de Monmouth, iii. Roaps or Robert, iv. Sm Walter de Huntley, the son of Baderon de Monmouth and Roesia de Clare, mar- ried Petronilla, eldest daughter and co-heir of Walter de Musgros. He had granted to him Huntley, parcel of the Barony of Monmouth, by John the Baron, who styles him ^^ Consanguieus 210 meua'' Sir Walter de Hiintley, by his marriage with Petromlla de Musgros, had issue, i Sm Walter db Huntley, Juil, who married the daughter and co-heiress of William de HaHdngs, younger son of Lord Hastings. ii. Elchard de Huntley, living in 1243. Sir Walter de Huntley, Junr., had issue, Sir Thomas ds Huntley, who married the daughter and co-heiress of — Grendour, Lord of S. Brides, Netherwent. He was living in 1299, and had issue, i Thomas, (called Tomlyn by the WelsL) He married Alice, daughter and heiress of Sir William Wallis, of Treowen. ii. John Htmtley, Lord of Purton, Worces- tershire, 1313 ; and of S. Brides in 1315. He died & p. Thomas Huntley had issue, i. Gwilym, or William Huntley, of Treowen, fix)m whom descend the Huntleys of Treowen. ii. John Huntley of S. Brides, iii Hugh. iv. David, living 1382. V. Adams ap Tomlyn, living in 1389 ; d. s. p. vi. Robert ; d. s. p., 1376. John Huntley married Elizabeth, daughter of John ap Adam, (heir of her brother John, in 1399,) and had issue, L John Huntley, of S. Bridea ii. A daughter, married to Thomas Pell, of Usk, and living in 1441. 211 John Huntley of S. Brides, married Jane, daughter of Sir Roger Vaughan, of Bredwardine, (who was killed at Agrncourt, Oct. 25th, 1415,) and had issue. i. John Huntley, (living in 1449,) who mar- ried Johanna, daughter and heiress of John RouAis als ap Adam, and had only female issua ii. Thomas Huntley, of Hadnock, who mar- ried Margery, daughter of C3mstopher Baynham, and had issue, L Hugh Huntley of Hadnock. ii William. Hugh Huntley, who was living in 1526, had issue, i. Richard Huntley, who married Margaret Owen, or Gwyn. ii John Huntley of Hadnock; living in 1537. iii Elizabeth, iv. Catherina John Huntley married Margaret Andrewes, and had issue, i Thomas Huntley, of Hadnock, who died before 1564. He married Anne, daughter of Eichard Bra3me, and had issue, daughters. ii. John Huntley, of Standish, in Glou- cestershire ; mentioned by Sir R Atkyns and Rudder, living in 1545. He married Alice, sister and heiress of Edmund Langley, of Sid- dington, in Gloucestershire, and had issue, i George Huntley, of Frocester Court, Glou- 212 cestershire. He married Catherine, daughter of John Walsh, of Sodbury, and had issue, i. John Huntley, of Frocester Court, who married Jane, daughter of Sir Edward Kame, Knt, of Glamorganshire, and had issue. i. Greorge Huntley, of Frocester Court, who married Eleanor, daughter of Sir William Winter, and died 22nd Sept., 1622, s. p. This Sir George Huntley entertained Queen Elizabeth at Frocester Court, on her way to Berkeley Castle, ii. William, ii. Henry Huntley, of Boxwell Court, Gloucestershire, (will dated 1556.) He mar- ried, first, Elizabeth, daughter of Wm. Throgmorton, of Tortworth, Gloucestershire, and had issue, i. George Huntley, of Boxwell Court, of whom hereafter. u. Frances, married John Bowdler, of Tortworth. iii. Elinor. Henry Huntley married, secondly, Anne, daugh- ter of John Bufford, and had issue, i. Edmund Huntley, Colonel in the army ; served in the Low Coimtries. He waa married to Anne, daughter and heir^ of John Kemys, and died s. p. (Will dated 26th Jime, 1591.) 213 George Huntley of Boxwell Court, was M.P. for Cricklade in 1555, and High Sheriff of Glou- cestershire in 1563. He married Constance, daughter and co-heiress of Edward Ferrers, of Wood Bevington, and Baddesley Clinton, County Warwickshire, and had issue, i. John Huntley. He married Frances, daugh- ter of Sir John Conway, and died vitd patris. He had issue, a son John, killed at the storm- ing of Cirencester by Prince Kupert. iL George, d. s. p. iii. William, who married Aime, daughter of Thomas Morgan, and had issue, an only child, Elizabeth. iv. Matthew the Cavauer, (baptized at Boxwell, 1580 ; buried there 1653.) V. Constance, who married, first, Richard BaskerviUe ; secondly. Sir John Sidney. Matthew Huntley married, first, a daughter of Algini, and had a son, Matthew, who died young ; secondly, Frances, daughter of Sir (Jeorge Snigg, Baron of the Exchequer, and had issue, L George Huntley, bom 1623, of whom hereafter, died 1670. ii. WiUiam, d. s. p. iii. Thomas, d. s. p. iv. Henry, d. s. p. V. Gabriel, d. s. p. vi. Edmund, A, s. p. viL Francis, d. s. p. 214 viii. Alice, married to Sir John Wynniard, and died in childbed. iz. Maiy, married to George Lyte, of Ljte's Gary. X. A daughter, married to Thomas Smith, of the Inner Temple. Geobge Huntley, of Boxwell Court (who died in 1670, aged 47,) married Sylvester, daughter and heiress of Edward, the son of Nicholas Wekys, Esq., (she died in 1675,) and had issue, L George, d. a p. 1679. Buried at BoxwelL ii. Amy, married — Guise ; died in childbed. iiL Matthew, of whom hereafter, iv. Henry, dap. V, Edward, d. a p. vl WekyB. vii. Henrietta, viii. France& ix. Susamia. X. Elizabeth, xi. Anne, xii. Alice. xiii. Mary, married, 1st, Sir Thomas Engle- field, Bart., of Englefield, Coimty Bucking- hamshire ; second, Walter Allday. Matthew Hxtntley, of Boxwell Court, was bom in 1655, married Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of John Chandler, and niece and heiress of Edward Chandler, D.D., Lord Bishop of Dur- ham, and had issue. He died in 1711. 215 L BiCHABD, of whom hereafter. iL Matthew, buried at Boxwell, 1711, da p- Hi Elizabeth, d s. p. iv. Bose, buried in 1714, dap. V. Mary, d, a. p. vi. Elizabeth, married Thomaa Johnson, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, and dap. RiCHABD Huntley was bom in 1690. He was in holy orders, Kector of Boxwell and Castle Coombe, buried at Boxwell, 1723, set. 39, married Anne, daughter of Colonel Lee, of the Donjon, Canterbury, and of Walsingham, Norfolk, and had issue, i. Bichard, who died an in£mt. ii. Richard, bom 1721. iiL Dorothy, d s. p. iv. Elizabeth, d s. p. V. Anne, married Henry Stephens, Esq., of Chavenage. vL Mary, married Daniel Woodward, of Bris- tol, from whom are descended the Lee Warners of Walflingham Abbey. Bjchasd Huntley, bom in 1721, in holy orders, Bector of Boxwell and Shipton Moyne, buried at Boxwell, 1794, set. 73, married Anne, daughter and heiress of Nicholas Beaker, of Net- tleton. County Wilts, and had issue, L Bichard, died an in&nt. u. Bichard, bom 1766. iil Wadham Huntley, in holy orders. Vicar 216 of Aston Blank, and Bector of Eastington, died unmarried, 1844, set. 73. iv. Anne, married James Hardwicke, D.D., and d. s. p. V. Mary, married, first, Thomas Hughes, sur- geon ; second, W. W. Darke, M.D., and d s. p. yi Catherine, married Rev. Benjamin Spry, from whom are descended the Skrines of War- leigL vii. Sarah, married William Veel, Esq., and had issue, Joseph Colboume Veel, Esq. BiCHABD Huntley, bom in 1766, in holy orders. Rector of Boxwell and Dodington, died in 1831, set. 65, married Anne, daughter and heiress of James Webster, LL.B., Archdeacon of Glou- cester, and ultimate heir of William Warburton, D.D.y Lord Bishop of Gloucester, and had issue, i RiCHABD Webstbb* bom 2nd April, 1793, at BoxwelL iL James Webster, in holy orders, Vicar of Thursby and of Kirklington, Cumberland. He married Anne, daughter of Samuel Goodenough, son of Samuel Goodenough, Lord Bishop of Carlisle, and has issue, L Anne. ii Frances. iiL (Sir) Henry Veel, Kt, RN., married Anne, daughter of General Skinner, and has issue, i. Spencer Robert, RN. ii. Henry Ferrers, iii. Constance. 217 iv. Edmund, married Harriett, daughter of William Goode, of Brompton, Middlesex, and had issue, i. Osmond Currie Huntley, an only son. V. William Warburton, married Emily Theresa, daughter of Sir Lewis Versturme, Knt., d. s. p. vi Lee Warner, d. s. p. vii. George, A a p. viil Osmond Charles, d. s. p. ix. Anne, d. s. p. X. Frances, d. a p. XL Clara Jane, married William Miles, of Great Saxham Hall, County Suffolk, and has ■«u^ two sons «d si. daih.- xiL Frances, married W. B. Brodie, Esq., late MR for Salisbury, and has issue, four sons and four daughters. xiiL George Henry, living unmarried in 1856. Rev. Richard Webster Huntley, M.A. and late Fellow of All Soids, Oxford, and Proctor for that University in 1825, is Rector of Boxwell and Vicar of Alberbury. He married Mary, daughter of Richard Lyster, Esq., M.P., of Row- ton Castle, County Salop, and has issue, i. Richard Freville, bom 15th Dec., 1833, of the Inner Temple, Barrister-at-Law, of Bal- liol College. Oxford. iL Henry, bom 23rd Feb., 1835, of Exeter CoU^e, Oxford. 218 Arms. Argent, or a Chevron sable, between three stags' heads, erased of the second, as many bugle horns of the first. Crest. A Talbot ppr. Collared and lined or, on a wreath. Motto. Je Youl droit avoir. Seat. Boxwell Court, Glouoestershire. HoLFORD OF Weston Birt. The first of this family who possessed property in Gloucestershire was Sir ElCHARD HOLFORD, Ent., a Master in Chan- cery, (appointed June 28, 1694.) He married, first, Sarah, daughter and heiress of John Crew, Esq., of Weston Birt, and thence became pos- sessed of that estate; Ti»eAnD.ofth0Hbifcrt.. secondly, Elizabeth, daughter of Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Stayner, by whom he had issue, a son, Robert, and other children ; thirdly, Susanna, daughter of Samuel Trotman, Esq. Robert, his son by his second wife, was bom in 1686, and was also a Master in Chancery, (appointed Oct. 17, 1712.) He married Sarah, 219 daughter of Sir Peter Vandeput, and had issue, a son Peter, and other children. Mr. Kobert Holford died in 1753. Peter, his son, was bom in 1719. He also was a Master in Chancery, (appointed Aug. 14, 1750.) He married Anne, daughter of William Nutt, Esq., of Buxted, Sussex, and had issue, L Adam, bom 1753, died an in&nt. ii. Robert, bom in 1758, died s. p. 1838. iii. George Peter, of whom presently. i. Sarah, married in 1806, Sir Charles G. Hudson, Bart., of Wanlip, County Leicester, and died s. p. in 1812. iL Charlotte, married in 1796, Charles Bosanquet, Esq., of Bock, Cotmty Northum- berland, and died in 1839. George Peter Holford, Esq., was bom in 1767, and married in 1802, Anne, daughter of Bev. Averell DanieU, of lifford, County Denial, and had issue, i. Egbert Stayner, now of Weston Birt. L Ann Jane, married in 1832, Bobert Blag- den Hale, Esq., of Alderley, late M.P. for the Western Division of Gloucestershire, and has issue, L Bobert, bom in 1834. ii. Matthew Holford, bom in 1835. i Anne. iL Theodosia iii. Georgina. 220 ii. Georgma^ married in 1856, Robert Peter Burrell, Esq., of Stoke Paxk, Suffolk. iiL Emily Elizabeth, married in -1836, Sir George J. Palmer, Bart., of Wanlip, County Leicester, (she died in 1852,) and has issue, I Archdale Robert, b. 1838. iL George, i Emily. Robert Stayner Holford, Esq., was bom in 1808, and was educated at Harrow, and Oriel College, Oxford, and is M.P. for the Eastern Division of the County of Gloucester. He served the office of High Sheriff of Gloucestershire in 1843, and is in the Commission of the Peace for that County and Wiltshire. He married in Aug. 1854, Mary Anne, daughter of Major General James Lindsay, of Balcarres, County Fife, and has issue, i Margaret. iL Evelyn. Arms. — ^Ar. a greyhound in full course sa Crest. — ^A greyhound, head and neck couped on a baton. Seats. — Dorchester House, Park Lane, London ; Weston Birt, Tetbury. 221 /* \ Paul of Highgrove. The first of this family who settled in Tetbury was JosiAH, the son of Nathaniel Paul, of King Stanley. He married Hester, daughter of Giles Pike, of Tetbury, and had issue, I John, bom 1707. Married Sarah, daugh- ter of — Wight, of Wot ton - under-Edge. Died September, 1789, aged 80. ii. George, iii. SamueL iv. Josiah i. Elizabeth ; married John Bamford, of Tetbury, and had issue. ii Mary ; married John Gethin of Durs- ley, and died s. p., August 2nd, 1782, aged 72. iii Hester ; married Richard Tippetts, of Dursley, in 1745, at Newington Bagpath. She died in 1784, and is buried at Tetbury. Mr. JosiAH Paul died Oct. 2nd, 1744, and was succeeded by his son John, who died without issue, Sept. 2nd, 1789, and was succeeded by his nephew, Josiah Paul Tippetts, son of his sister Hester, by her marriage with Kichard Tippetts. The Anns of the Paar& 222 He was bom at Dursley, in 1748, and in accord- ance with the will of his maternal uncle, John Paul, assumed the name of Paul, under sign manual, 12th Nov. 1787. He married, in 1771, Mary, the daughter of Robert Clark, Esq., of Tetbury, and had issue, L John Paul Paul, bom August 24th, 1772. He married Mary, only child of Walter Matthews, Esq., of Clapham, Surrey, and had issue, 1. John, bom July 2nd, 1795, and d. s. p., 14th Oct., 1817, aged 22. 2. Walter Matthews, bom 7th Feb., 1797 ; married, Ist of July, 1819, Elizabeth, second daughter of John Hawker, Esq., and had issue, I Walter John, bom 20th Jan., 1823. ii. Arthur George, bom July, 25th, 1831. lieut. 23rd Kegt. h.e.lc.s. iii. Francis, bom Jan. 12th, 1836. En- sign 23rd Kegt. H.E.LC.S. i Mary Elizabeth ; d. a p., March 10th, 1850. ii. Susan. iii. Letitia Margaret. Mr. Walter Paul is a Magistrate for Gloucester and Wilts, and Captain of the Tetbury troop of the Royal Gloucestershire Yeomanry Cavalry. 1. Mary, who married, first, in 1813, Gerard Martin Berkeley Napier, Esq., of Pennard House, Somerset^ (he died in May, 1820,) and by him had issue. 228 ' - ^ L Edward Berkeley, bom Nov, 5, 1816, \ and married the daughter of General Sir John Wilson. ^ ii Charles Walter Albin, bom 1819, in - ^ holy orders, married Marianne Flora, second daughter of Lord Talbot de Malahide. ^ Hi Gerard John, bom 1818, Captain RN. i Letitia Mary, married May, 1839> Fred Cripp,, a,,, and dirf Aug., 1889. ii Julia Arundell, died in 1849. Mrs. Napier married secondly, 28th September, 1835, Sir John Dean Paul, Bart., and died 6th February, 1842. 2. Anna Maria, married June 15, 1820, the Rev. WUliam S. Birch, Rector of Easton Grey and Luckington, and had issue, L William Paul, bom December 8, 1821, (of Exeter CoUege, Oxford,) and dap. 1843. iL George Edward, bom December 9, 1831, of Oriel College, Oxford. iii Henry John, bom September 13, 1833. iv. Walter Albin, bom February, 1836, and died May 22, 1841. L Haniette, d. s. p. 1840. ii. Mary, d. s. p. 1839. iii. Emily. iv. Elizabeth. ▼. Frances Adelaide, died s. p. 1840. vL Ann Maria. Mr& Birch died October 13, 1839. b V 224 3. Hariette, married in July, 1839, the Rev. John Frampton, Vicar of Tetbury, and had issue, i. John Paul, bom December 6, 1830, and died October 25, 1840. ii Edward, born December 23, 1831. iii. Frederick William, bom Feb. 20, 1833. iv. Walter, born August 22, 1837. • V. John, bom February 8, 1841. vi James Henry, bom Nov. 5, 1842. i. Harriette. iL Mary. iiL Anne. iv. Hannah Audrey Grace, died & p. March 30, 1848. Mrs* Frampton died 18th January, 1851. Mr. John Paul Paul was educated at Queen's College, Oxon, and was High Sheriff of Wilts in 1807. He was created D.C.L. of Oxford, 22nd June, 1814, and in 1818 he purchased the Manor of Doughton of Thomas Talboys, Esq., and died in 1828, and was succeeded by his eldest surviving son, Walter Matthews PauL ii. Robert Clark, bom September 9, 1775, married July 2, 1794, Elizabeth, only child of Ed- ward Browne, of the city of Bristol, and had issue^ i. Edward Browne. ii. Josiah Tippetts, bom 13th April, 1801, He married, firsts September 24, 1827, Char- lotte, only child of the Rev. John Harman Howes, Rector of Easton Grey, and had issue, 225 i. Clara Frances, married September 25, 1856, Rev. David Kitcat, M.A, of Trimty College, Oxford ii Charlotte Augusta Maria. Secondly, in 1848, Mary Ann Jane, daughter of the late Captain Henry White, of Tetbury, and has issue, i. Alfred Henry, bom July 30, 1849. ii. Josiah Edward, bom April 24, 1852. i. Ada Mary. 3. Bobert Clark, bom May 30, 1804. 4. Henry, bom December 13, 1805, and mar- ried in 1837, Sarah Kingstone, and had issue. 5. Frederick, born February 22, 1809, and married in 1838, Elizabeth Y. Haines. 6. Alfred John, bom January 11, 1811, Com- mander RN., died August 18, 1845. 7. Charles William, bora Feb. 13, 1813, mar- ried Sept. 21, 1844, Ann, daughter of William Maskelyne, Esq., and died s. p., March 14, 1854. 1. Ann, bom September 9, 1797, and died 8. p., October 10, 1856. 2. Maria Harriette, married April, 1830, Rev. John Duffiis, and has issue, two sons and five daughters. Mr. Robert Clark Paul died 25th Oct., 1856. iii Josiah, bom January 2, 1779, Lieutenant RN., d. 8. p., September 28, 1799, at the Holder, on the Coast of Holland, whilst engaged in the service of his country. Q 226 iv. Samuel Paul, bom July 18, 1781, educated as a Gentleman Commoner at New College, Ox- ford, married February, 1810, Mary Pearce, eldest daughter of the Rev. William Jenkins, Vicar of Sidmouth, (she died 31st December, 1847,) and had issue, 1. Edmund William, bom November 9, 1810, married Charlotte, daughter of Harry James, Esq., and has issue. 2. Augustus, bom 1814, d. s. p. 1854. 3. Henry John, bom 1816, and married Bessie, daughter of James Ford, Esq., and has issue. 1. Charlotte Elizabeth Mary. 2. Emma Maria Frederica, married Oct. 14, 1835, Baynes K Beed, Esq., M.D., and had issue, five sons. Mrs. Beed died in 1847. 3. Harriet Emily Kingscote, d. s. p. 1845. 4. Caroline Mary, married in 1846, Charles Kitson, Esq., solicitor of Torquay, and has issue. The Bev. Samuel Paul Paul was elected Vicar of Tetbury 25th July, 1825, and died 29th of July, 1828. V. George, b. June 2, 1783, and d. s. p. 1829. vi. Bichard^ b. Jime 11, 1785, and d. s. p. 1815. viL Charles, b. May 30, 1790, and d s. p. 1846. L Maria Sloper Tippetts, bom January 2, 1774, and d. s. p., 1805. ii. Esther, d. s. p., 1778. 227 ^ "^ iii. Eleanor, married 17th February, 1820, Jacob Wood, Esq., of Tetbury, and has issue, 1. William Paul, bom 24th January, 1823, M. A. of S. John's College, Oxford, in holy orders, Rector of Saddington, Leicestershire, married Jaqu^te Maty, daughter of William Hole, Esq., and has issue, a son and two daughters. 2. Charles Paul, solicitor, born August 17, 1828, mairied 28th March, 1854, Mary, daugh- ter of John Lyall, Esq. 1. Eleanor, married in 1843, William Brookes, Esq., of Elmestree, (Justice of the Peace for Gloucestershire, and Captain in the Eoyal North Gloucester Militia,) and had issud, i Alfred William, bom Aug. 15, 1847. ii Charles Henry, bom January 25, 1849. iii Francis Avenel, bom June 30, 1850. i. Marianne Ellen. ii Harriette Agnea iiL Elizabeth Ann. Mrs. Brookes died in May, 1854, 2. Eliaabeth, died s. p., 1852, 3. Maria Paul. 4. Frances Paul. Q* ! 228 The Anns of Sftrage. Savage of Tetbury. The family of Savage, as may be inferred from the name, is of Norman extraction ; they most probably settled in Eng- land immediately after the Conquest. The name is first mentioned as Le Sauvage, and together with the names of many of our oldest famihes in England, it still exists in Normandy at this present day. The Savages of Bock Savage, &c., descended firom the Savages of Steinesby, CSounty Derby, who were seized of this manor in the reign of King John. It remained in their family till 1580, when John Savage conveyed it to Lord Chancellor Bromley, by whom it is probable it was again conveyed to Sir William Cavendish. It « ^the property of the Duke of Devo-ahire. John Le Savage, living circa 1090, had a son, Adam Le Savage, (by deed without date), whose son Bobebt Le Savage, of Steinesby, County Derby, had a son John Le Savage, Lord of Steinesby, aforesaid. He was succeeded by his son Sir Geoffery Le Savage, of Steinesby, Knight, 1 Bichard L (1 1 90.) He married Lettice, 229 daughter of Sir Henry de Ardeme, Knight, by whom he had a son, John Savage, of Steinesby, in lief anno Johannis, (1205.) He was succeeded by his second son John Savage, of Steinesby, who married Agatha, daughter and heiress of Henry S. Andrew, and by her had a son. Sir Thomas Savage, of Steinesby, Knight, Uving 29 Edward I. (1301.) He had a son. Sir Egbert Savage, of Steinesby, Knight, 41 Edward III., (1367,) who married Amicia, daughter and heiress of Thomas Walkingham, by whom he had a son, Snt John Savage, Knight^ in lief 49 Edward III. (1375.) He married Margaret^ daughter and heiress of Sir Thomas Dangers, Knight, de Bradley. She afterwards married Sir Peter Leigh, of Lyme, Cheshire ; by this marriage, Clifton, County Ches- ter, afterwards called Bock Savage, came into the family. Sir John Savage died in 1386, and his wife in 1427. They had issue, two daughters, Elizabeth and Blanche, and a son, Sm John Savage, Knight, of Clifton, County Chester, was knighted at the battle of Agincourt, in 1415. He, instead of the arms which had always heretofore been borne by his family, viz., ar. six lioncels sa., took his mother's arms, ar. a pale fusile sa, and for the crest, a unicorn's head, couped, ar., which she granted him to bear aft»r the death of her father, 3 Henry V. (1416.) He married Maud, daughter and heiress of Sir Bobert Swimmerton, Knight, of Mojme Barrow, 2dO County Chester, Rushton, Comford, axid Aufitan* field, County Stafford ; she inherited them fix)m her father, and had issue, i. John. iii. Arnold. v. Roger, ii. William. iv. George, i. Margaret, married John Dutton, second son of Sir Peirs Dutton, of Dutton. John Savage, of Clifton, married Eleanor, daughter and heiress of Sir W. Brereton, and died in 1463, aged 53, he had issue, i. John. i. Marjory, married first, to Edmund Leigh, of Bagsleigh ; second, to Thomas Leycester, of the then Tabley, County Chester. ii. Margaret, married first John Maxfield, second, Eandle Mannering, of Over Pevon, County Chester. Sir John Savage, Knight, of Clifton, married Catherine, daughter and heiress of Sir Thomas Stanley, and sister to Thomas Stanley, Earl of Derby, and had issue, i. Sir John, Knight of Clifton. He led the charge of the left wing at the Battle of Bosworth Field, in 1485, and was very Instrumental, together with his uncle, Thomas, Lord Stanley, afterwards Earl of Derby, in the promoting of Henry VII. to the Throne, and in gaining the Battle of Bosworth Field. He was a valiant man^ and an expert soldier, and was made KG. by Henry VII. He was killed at the siege of Boulogne, in France, in 231 1492, during the life-time of his father. He married Dorothy, the daughter of Kalph Vernon. Sib John Savage, great-grandson of the above Sir John, built a magnificent, mansion at Clifton. County Chester, and called it Rock Savage ; he died in 1597. He again took for his arms, ar. six lioncels sa., and for his crest, a lion's gamb sa. erect out of a ducal coronet or, which coat was afterwards always borne by his fiimily. John, his son and heir, the ninth of that name in suc- cession, was created a Baronet, in 1611. Sir John Savage, a younger son of the first Baronet, was murdered in 1609, by one Ralph Bathurst, who being arraigned for the act, and refusing to plead, was pressed to death. Sib Thomas Savaqe, second Baronet^ entertained King James I. and his whole Court, at Rock Savage in 1617, He was created Viscount Savage by Charles I. in 1626. His son was in 1639 created Earl Rivers ; his mother being daughter and heiress of Thomaa, Lord d'Arcy, who enjoyed that title. By the death of John, fifth and last Earl Rivers, with- out issue, in 1728, the Manor of Clifton, or Rock Savage, passed to James, Earl Barryman, who had married Elizabeth, only daughter of Richard, fourth Earl Rivers, and fi-om them to Penelope, their only daughter. She married James, younger son of the Earl of Cholmondeley, in whose family the estate still remains, as well as the title of Earl of Rock Savage. 232 ii. Thomas, who was in holy orders, was consecrated Bishop of Rochester in 1492, and translated to London in 1497, and from thence to York in 1501. He died in 1503, and was buried in York Minster, where there is a splendid altar tomb, with his effigy, erected to his memory. His heart was bnried at Maxfield, Comity Chests, where he had built a Chapel. It afterwards be- came the burial place of his family, and in it there are many magnificent monuments to them, iii. Sir Homfrey. iv. Lawrence. V. James. vi. Sir Edmund, who fell at Flodden Field, in 1515. He married Mary, daughter of William Sparke, of Surrey, and widow of Roger Leigh, of Ridgeweigh, Maxfield, County Chester, and had issue, a son, Edmund, knighted by the Earl of Hertford, at Leith, in Scotland, in 1544. vii. Sir Christopher, of whom hereafter. viii. William, ix. George. X. Richard. Sir Christopher Savage married Anne, daugh- ter and heiress of Sir Richard Lygon, and died seized of the Manors of Aston-sub-Edge, Broad Campden, Burrington, and Westington, County Gloucester. In the 36th year of his reign, Henry VIIL granted to him the estates of Elmley Castle, County Worcester. He had issue, 233 i. Francis. ii George, in holy orders, Archdeacon of Gloucester, and Hector of Seagrave, married Anne, daughter of George Turvile, the sister of Sir William Turvile, of Aston. He obtained the Manor of Walter fix)m his father-in-law. Francis Savage, of Elmley Castle, married Anne, daughter of William Sheddon, or Sheldon, of Borley Court, County Worcester, and had issue, i. Willkm. who married Anne, daughter and heiress of John Knotsford, of Great Malvern, (who brought the Priory at Great Malvern, and the estates into the family,) and had issue, 1. Sir John Savage, Knt., married Dorothy, daughter of Sir Henry Poole, of Saperton, County Gloucester. 2. Giles, married Elatherine, daughter of Sir Richard Dalston, and had issue, I Thomaa, married Mary, daughter of Sir John Ham. iiL Gile& ii. William. iv. John. 1. Mary, married to Sir Thomas Estcourt. iL Walter, of whom hereafter, iii. Anthony, who sold his possessions at Broadway, to Lord Keeper Coventry. iv. John. Walter Savage, of Broadway, (which he in- herited £rom his mother,) married Elizabeth, daugh- ter of John Hall of Idlecote, County Worcester and had issue, 234 i. lUchaxd. iL Balph. iiL Chables Savage, married Elizabeth, daughter of Anthony Abbingdon, of Dowda- well, County Gloucester, and had issue, i. Abingdon, died 1625. iL William of Tetbury, bom 1622, Magis- trate and Deputy Lieutenant for County of Gloucester, died 1681, aged 59. He married Mary, daughter of William Bird of Wotton- unde]>Edge. iii. Anthony, bap. in 1623. iv. John. i. Anne, bap. in 1623. iL Mary, bap. 1627. iii. Elizabeth, iv. Anthony. V. Francis, of whom hereafter, vi. John. viL Walter, who went to Spain in 1660. L Valentine. iL Bridget. Francis Savage, married in 1621, Mary, daugh- ter of Edmund Estcourt, of Shipton Moyne, brother of Sir Thomas Estcourt. He inherited the property of Dame Mary Estcourt, widow of Sir Thomas Estcourt, and also acquired consider- able property together with the old Mansion House in Tetbury, from his wife, the whole of whidi was devised entail to his son John and his heirs. 285 By his marriage with Maiy Estcourt he had issue. i. Francis, bap. 1626» d. 1636. \L John, bap. 1630, of whom hereafter. iii. Walter. iv. William, bap. 1633. V. Francis, bap. 1636. vL Thomas, bap. 1638. i. Mary, bap. 1622. ii. Lucy, bap. 1628. iii. Elizabeth, bom 1629, d. 1683, aged 54. John Savage of Tetbury, married Jane, daugh- ter of , and had issue. i. Francis, bap. 1651. ii. William, bap. 1663. L Elizabeth, bap. 1657. ii. Eatherine, bap. 1661. iii. Jane, bap. 1668. Francis Savage, in 1675, married Dorothy, daughter of — Solway, of Worcester. He re- sided at Severn Stoke, Worcestershire, until the death of his father in 1683, when he removed to Tetbury. He had issue, L Francis, bap. 1676. ii. John, bap. 1677, died 1691. iiL WiUiam, married Sarah, daughter of J. Jenkins, of South Cemey. L Jane. iii Dorothy. iL ]fflizabeth. iv. Eatherine. Francis Savage died in 1740, aged 63. He left 2a6 to his son John all his fireehold messuages, land, and tenements, except the house and garden at Westoourt^ and all the land in the tything of Upton, in the parish of Tetbuiy, which he left to his second son, Francis. He had issue, i John, of Tetbury, who d a p. in- 1773. He survived his brother Francis, and left aU his property to his nephew John. iL Fbancis, of Tetbuiy, married Mary , and died intestate in 1769, when all his pro- perty passed to his only child, John, i. Elizabeth. iL Elinor. The Bev. John Savage, Rector of Beverstone and Weston Birt, married Charlotte, daughter of Walter Wiltshire, of Shockerwick House, County Somerset. He died in 1803, aged 56, and left his house and property, situated in or near Tet- buiy, for the use of his widow for her life, and after her death to his son John. Mrs. Savage died in 1846. The issue of this marriage was» i. John, of whom hereafter. iL Francis, of Springfield, Westbury-on-Trim, Coimty Gloucester, who married Juliana, daugh- ter of Thomas Walker, of Bedland, County Gloucester, and had issue, L Francis Walker, now of Springfield. ii. Charles Walter. L Louisa Walker, d. 1845. 287 ii. Francis Harriet, iii. Juliana Charlotte. Mr. Francis Savage died in 1845. i Chajrlotte, d. s. p. 1847. ii. Elizabeth. iii: Louisa^ married Jacob Wilkinson, of Bath. John Savagb, of Tetbury, married Bachel, daughter of Robert Claxton, Esq., of the Island of St. Christopher, in the West Indies, and has issue, i. John Claxton, d s. p. in 1836. ii. Heniy, d. 8. p., in infeucy. iiL Francis. iv. William, married Anne, daughter of Rev. Charles Holdsworth, of Dartmouth, County Devon. L Maria» died 1842. Mr. Savage sold the Mansion House and the close adjoining, which he inherited after the death of his mother, to Joseph Wood, Esq., banker of Tetbury, in 1850. The rest of the fiirms and other lands still belong to him (1856.) Extracts from the Parish Register of Tet- bury RESPECriNG THE FaMIUES OF SaVAGE, Talboys, Gastrell, &c. The following extracts from the Parish Register will be best understood by a few words being prefixed to them, respecting the alteration in 238 the Calendar made by Pope Gregory XHL (1582.) Julius Caesar (B.C. 45,) fixed the solar year at 365 days, six hours ; but this was de- fective, since the true solar year consists of 365 days, five hours, and forty-nine minutes. In the time of Pope Gregory XIII., this difference amounted to ten entire days, so that the vernal equinox fell on the 11th, instead of the 21st of March. The errors in the Julian style had for a long time attracted the attention of astronomers, when Pope Gregory XIIL undertook to reform the Roman Calendar. The alteration was made in October, 1582. In the Pontiff's new Calendar, ten days were deducted firom the year 1582, by calling what would have been the 5th the 15th day of October. It was attempted shortly after- wards to introduce this new style into Englaad. A bill waa brought into the House of Lords for reforming the Calendar, on the 16th of March, 1584-5 (27 Eliz.) It was read on the 18th of the same month, after which no notice of the proposed measure appears. The historical year has for a long time com- menced on the 1st of January. The legal year commenced in England on the 25 th of March* until 24 Geo. II., c. 23, (1751,) in which year * an Act of Parliament was passed, entitled, "An Act for regulating the commencement of the year, and for correcting the Calendar now in use." It was ordered that the 1st day of January next 239 should be reckoned as the first day of the year 1752, and so on in all future years. The Gre- gorian style was received in France in 1582 ; in Spain, 1582; in Germany, 1584; in Great Britain and Ireland, 1752. Russia still retains the old style. The civil, ecclesiastical, and legal year, which was used by the Church, and in aU public in- struments, until the end of the thirteenth century, began at Christmas. In and after the fourteenth century, it commenced on the 25th of March, and so continued till the 1st of January, 1753.' This will explain why the years in the fol- lowing extracts begin at the 25th of March, until the year 1753. The Savage Family. 1626 July 13, Francis, s. of Francis Savage, gent., bap. 1627 October 4, Marj, d. of Charles Savage, bap. 1628 April 24, Lucj, d. of Francis Savage, bap. 1629 November 5, John, s. of Charles Savage, bap. 1 630 August 5, John, s. of Francis Savage, gent., bap. 1633 October 17, William, s. of Francis Savage, bap. 1635 September 10, Ann, d. of Francis Savage, gent., bap. 1636 July 8, Francis Savage bur. December 29, Frances, d. of Francis Savage, bap. 1638 August 10, Frances Savage bur. ^^ ^^^ • February 19, Thomas, s. of Francis Savage, bap. 1640 April 7, Thomas, s. of Francis Savage, bap. * Sir Harris Nicholas's Chronology of History, p. 34-41 ', Haydn's Did. of Dates, 240 1649 September 27» Mr. Anthony Ashfield and Mrs. Mary Savage mar. 1650 September 20, Mary, d. of Anthony Ashfield, b^. 1661 December 19, Francis, s. of John Savage, bap. Jan. 18, Mr. Joseph Norwent and Mrs. Mary Savage mar. 1653 April 17, Elizabeth, d. of Joseph Norwent, bap. November 23, John, s. of John Savage, bom. 1655 April 23, Mary, d. of Mr. William Savi^e, bom. May 25, Mary, d. of Mr. William Savage, bur. 1656 October 5, Charles, s. of William Savage, bora. 1657 July 31, Elizabeth, d. of John Savage, born. January 4, Mary, wife of Mr. Joseph Norwen^ bur. 1658 July 28, William, s. of William Savage, bom. 1659 September 24, Mary/d. of John Savage, bom. 1660 May 22, George, s. of Mr. William Savage, bap. August 12, Jane, d. of John Savage, born. August 12, Ann, d. of John Savage, bom. September 13, Mrs. Ann Savage bur. December 21, Jane, d. of Mr. John Savage, bap. 1661 November 21, Ann, d. of William Savage, gent. January 16, Katherine, d. of John Savage, gent, bap. 1662 February 21, Thomas Savage and Elizabeth Hall mar. 1663 October 8, William, s. of John Savage, gent., bap. October 15, Richard, s. of William Savage, gent., bap. October 17, Richard, s. of William Savage, bur. November 19, Elizabeth, d. of Thomas Savage, bap. February 2, Elizabeth, wife of Mr. Charles Savage, bur. 1665 June 22, Charles, s. of John Savage, gent. January 11, John, s. of Thomas Savage, bap. 1666 July 20, Abington, d. of William Savage, gent., bap. August 6, Susannah, d. of John Savage, gent., bap. August 21, Susannah, d. of John Savage, bur. September 13, Abington, d. of W. Savage, bur. November 1, Charles, s. of John Savage, gent., bur. January 1, Mary, wife of William Savage, gent, bur 1667 December 15, Thomas, s. of Thomas Savage, bap. 241 1668 April 16, Thoinai Savage bur. May 1, Jane, d. of Mr. John Savage, bap. 1669 November 19, Ann, d. of Mr. John Savage, bap. 1671 March 8, Mr. Franda Savage, sen., bar. 1672 December 8, Jane, d. of John Savage, gent, bap. 1675 November 25, Elizabeth, d. of John Savage, bap. 1676 April 25, Barbara, d. of Mr. William Savage, bap. 1678 March 25, Barbara, d. of Mr. William Savage, bap. April 1, Margaret, d. of John Savage, bap. May 7, Katherine, d. of Mr. William Savage, bap. 1679 December 10, Elizabeth Savage born 1681 July 30, Thomas, son of John Savage, bap. October 3, William Savage, Esq., bur. 1683 September 8, Mr. John Saval^e, bur. 1684 January 17, Hannah, d. of John Savage, bap. May 6, Mary, d. of Mr. Francis Savage, bap. September 4, Mr. Anthony Savage, bur. January 1, Mr. William Savage and Mrs. Hues, mar. 1686 September 7, Dorothy, d. of Mr. Francis Savage, bap. 1687 February 15, Katherine, d. of Mr. Francis Savage, bap. 1689 June 13, Ann, d. of Frauds Savage, Grent., bap. March 10, William Savage, Gent. bur. 1690 November 21, Susanna, d. of Mr. Francis Savage, bap. 1691 May 16. John Savage, bur. October 23, William, s. of Mr. Francis Savage, bap. 1692 February 20, Charles, s. of Francis Savage, bap. 1693 June 26, Sarah, d. of John Savage, bap. 1694 May 7, Walter, s. of Francis Savage, bap. 1696 October 20, Ann, d. of Mr. Francis Savage, bap. January 11, Daniel Johnstone and Jane Savage, mar. 1698 April 9, Charles, s. of Francis Savage, bap. 1702 October 16, Mary, d. of Francis Savage, juiir. bap. October 17, Mr. Francis Savage's wife bur. 1703 March 24, Mary, d. of Widow Savage, bur. 1706 June 13, Nathaniel Body and Katherine Savage, mar. R 242 1708 April 16, Elizabeth, d. of Fnmeis Savage, bap. July 1, Mr. John King and Mrs. Elizabeth Savage, mar. 1709 October 5, John, s. of Thomaa Savage, bap. 1711 February 24, Mary, d. of Thomas Savage, bap. 1713 September 14, Eleanor, d. of Francis Savage October 6, Widow Savage, bur. 1715 April 28, Francis, s. of Francis Savage, bap. 1716 Januaiy 16, Thomas, s. of Thomas Savage, bap. 1719 November 8, William, & of Thomas Savage, bap. 1722 February 22, Charles, s. of Thomas Savage, bap. 1724 January 19, Mr. Dorothy Savage, bur. July 16, Charles, s. of Thomas Savage, bom. 1728 February 26, Thomas, s. of Thomas Savage, bur. 1730 March 1, Michael Madbing and Mary Savage, mar. 1735 August 16, Thomas, s. of John Savage, bap. November 5, Thomas, s. of John Savage, bur. 1 738 March 29, Jane, wife of John Savage, bur. 1740 April 19, Mr. Francis Savage, bur. 1744 March 24, Elizabeth, d. of John Savage, bap. 1745 December 26, Elizabeth, wife of Charles Savage, bur. 1749 March 18, Sarah, d. of John Savage, bap. 1750 April 16, Mr. Charles Savage, bur. 1751 January 13, Mrs. Mary Savage, bur. 1753 March 17, Abigail, Relict of Mr. Fn Savage, bur. 1759 August 27, Thomas Oatridge and Ann Savage, mar. 1762 January 7, John Boulton and Alice Savage, mar. 1763 May 8, Thomas, s. of William Savage, bap. August 10, Mrs. Eleanor Savage, bur. 1764 January 20, John Savage and Jane Parker, mar. 1765 January 21, Mary, d. of John Savage, bap. 1766 September 28, William, s. of John Savage, bap. 1767 April 30, Elizabeth, wife of John Savage, bur. May 31, John, s. of James Savage, bap. July 23, Sarah, wife of Mr. William Savage, bur. 1769 October 20, Francis Savage, bur. 243 1 770 April 5, Theodore, s. of James Savage, bur. ' August 28, John, s. of James Savage, bap. 1771 April 28, Elizabeth, d. of John Savage, junr., bap. August 24, Edward Hill and Elizabeth Savage, mar. 1772 December 22, Mr. John Savage, bur. 1775 October 19, Mr. William Savage, bur., aged 84. 1777 Nov. 18, Mrs. Elizabeth Savage, bur., aged 69. 1 779 Julj 26, Thomas Savage and Sarah Hill mar. 1787 August 6, John Savage, junr., bur. 1790 February 24, Francis, s. of Rev. John Savage and Charlotte his wife, bap. 1797 September 29, James Savage, bur. 1803 March 26, Rev. John Savage, Rector of Beverstone, bur. 1815 November 2nd, Mrs. Jane S&vage, widow, aged 88, bur. 1827 March 20, Jane Savage, bur. 1836 January 26, John Claxton Savage, aged 23, bur. 1842 February 12, Maria Savage, bur. 1845 July 1, John Savage, aged 65, bur. 1846 September 18, Charlotte Savage, aged 92, bur. 1847 August 31, Charlotte Savage, aged 71, bur. 1852 October 7, Sarah Savage, aged 87, bur. Thb Gastbell Family. 1634 November 20, Rebekah, d. of Mr. John Gastrell, bap, 1650 November 18, Jane, d. of Mr. Samuel Gastrell, bap. 1652 April 10, John, s. of Samuel Gastrell, gent., bap. 1653 June 18, Samuel, s. of Samuel Gastrell, bap. 1655 March 23, Fabian, s. of Samuel Gastrell, bom. 1658 September 3, Henry, s. of Samuel Gastrell, born. 1659 October 19, James, s. of Samuel Gastrell, born. 1660 November 28, Mary, d. of Samuel Gastrell, bap. 1663 May 5, Gilbert, s. of Samuel Gastrell, bap. 1664 June 16, Thomas, s. of Samuel Gastrell, bap. 1665 February 2, Nicholas, s. of Samuel Gastrell, bap. January 28, Edward, s. of Samuel Gastrell, bap. M 244 1668 June 12, Charles, b. of Samuel Gastrell, bap. 1673 June 12, Mr. William Window and Mrs. Jane Gastrell mar. October 15, Elizabeth, d. of Mr. Samuel Gastrell, bap. Oct. 18, Mrs. Grastrell, wife of Mr. Samuel Gastrell, bur. 1674 October 30, Mr. Samuel Gastrell bur. 1676 Jul J SO, Charles Gastrell bur. 1678 Feb. 16, John, s. of Mr. John Gastrell, bap. 1680 March 4, Richard, s. of Mr. John Gastrell, bap. 1687 May 15, Marj, d. of Mr. Gilbert Gastrell, bap. 1688 November 12, James, s. of Gilbert Grastrell, bap. March 21, Joanna, d. of Nicholas Grastrell, bap. 1693 November 1 3, Samuel, s. of Edward Gastrell, bap. 1695 July 20, Ann, d. of Mr. Gilbert Gastrell, bap. 1701 May 29, Jane, d. of Gilbert Gastrell, bap. 1732 December 8, Gilbert Grastrell, gent., bur. 1738 October 5, Ann, d. of James Gastrell, bap. 1747 July 21, Gilbert, s. of James Gastrell, bur. 1748 January 14, James Gastrell, set 61, bur. 1789 September 7, Mary Gastrell, bur. 1801 November 14, Miss Ann Grastrell bur. Thb Talbots Family. 1631 October 4, Mr. Bichard Talboys wife bur. 1634 September 4, Benjamin, s. of Richard Talboys, bap. 1635 December 26, Samuel, s. of Richard Talboys, bap. 1637 May 7, Andrew, s. of Richard Talboys, bap. 1638 July 5, Elizabeth, d. of Richard Talboys, bap. March 14, Elizabeth Talboys bur. 1639 September 5, Rebecca, d. of Richard Talboys, bap. 1650 Jan. 25, Elizabeth, wife of Richard Talboys, gent., bur. 1656 May 30, William, s. of Richard Talboys, bom. 1657 September 22, Francis, s. of Mr. Richard Talboys, born. 1659 December 20, Mary, d. of Richard Talboys, Esq., bap. 1662 April 22, Samuel, s. of Richard Talboys, Esq., bap. 245 1663 April 20, Mary, d. of Richard Talbojs, bap. June 9, Samuel, s. of Richard Talbojs, bur. August 10, Richard Talboys, Esq., bur. December 31, Alice, d. of Benjamin Talbojs, bap. 1664 Apiil 26, Giles Stedman and Katherine Talboys mar. Feb. 23, Katherine, d. of Giles Stedman, bap. 1665 August 25, Elizabeth, d. of Andrew Talboys, bap. 1666 September 10, Benjamin, s. of Benjamin Talboys de Dufton, bap. 1667 September 14, Frances, d. of Mr. Andrew Talboys, bap. 1668 February 8, Thomas, s. of Mr. Richard Talboys, bur. 1670 June 23, Anthony, s. of Mr. Benjamin Talboys, bap. 1672 April 11, Richard, s. of Mr. Richard Talboys, bap. June 29, Richard, s. of Mr. Andrew Talboys, bap. 1673 April 3, Benjamin, s. of Mr. Richard Talboys, bap. June 12, Sylvester, s. of Mr. Benjamin Talboys, bap. 1675 December 2, Alice, wife of Mr. Benjamin Talboys, of DufVon. Jan 13, Mr. Charles Smith and Mrs. Frances Talboys mar. 1679 September 20, Sibella Talboys bur. 1680 June 17, Ann, d. of Mr. Richard Talboys, bap. February 19, Mr. Andrew Talboys bur. 1688 May 8, Mr. Benjamin Talboys, bur. 1695 April 11, Richard, s. of Benjamin Talboys, bap. 1696 December 3, Richard, son of Mr. Richard Talboys, bap. 1697 May 3, Benjamin, s. of Mr. Talboys, bur. 1699 Sept. 28, Nancy, daughter of Mr. Richard Talboys, bap. 1706 July 29, James Morton and Ann Talboys, mar. 1710 March 5, Mr. W. Talboys, bur. 1712 November 23, Benjamin Talboys and Mary Powell mar. 1713 September 15, Richard, s. of Benjamin Talboys, bap. March 10, Mr. Richard Talboys wife, of Dufton, bur. 1715 April 12, Alice, d. of Benjamin Talboys, bap, 1717 November 3, Ann, d. of Benjamin Talboys, bap. 1721 July 29, Mr. Benjamin Talboys, bur. 246 December 15, Mrs. Hester Talbojs, widow, bur. 1722 August 18, Richard, s. of Benjamin Talbojs, bap. 1723 April 14, Mary, wife of Benjamin Talboys, bar. 1724 January 14, Mrs. Frances Talbojs, bur. 1725 June 27, Toby Mill and Frances Talboys, mar. 1726 February 28, Mr. Richard Talboys, bur. 1727 May 18, Joseph Blake and Elizabeth Talboys, mar. 1729 August 26, Mrs. Alice Talboys, bur. 1732 June 13, Mary, wife of Benjamin Talboys, bur. 1737 July 14, Thomas, s. of Thomas Talboys, bap. September 6, Thomas, s. of Thomas Talboys, bur. 1741 January 12, Sarah, wife of Thomas Talboys, bur. 1747 January 7, Benjamin Talboys, bur. 1749 February 6, Richard, s. of Benjamin Talboys, bur. 1767 April 1, Mr. Richard Talboys, bur. 1801 August 29, Elizabeth Corbett, d. of Thomas and Elizabeth Talboys, bap. 1 803 January 27, Mary Taylor, d. of Thomas and Elizabeth Talboys, bap. 1814 August 2, Henrietta Jane, d. of Thomas and Elizabeth Talboys, bap. Extracts fbom the Registers of Shifton Motns, rela- tive TO THE ESTCOURT FaMILT. 1573 June 4, Edmund, s. of Thomas and Mary Estcourt, bap. 1579 January 16, John, s. of Thomas Estcourt, bap. 1586 May 2, Anne, d. of Thomas Estcourt, Esq. bap. 1587 October 23, John, s. of Thomas Estcourt, Esq., bap. 1592 May 12, Mary, d. of Thomas Estcourt, bap. 1641 February 2, Thomas, s. of Mr. Thomas Estcourt, bap. 1643 May 30, Anne, d. of Thomas Estcourt, Esq. bap.^ ' There are no entries of Baptisms relating to the Estcourt family in the Parish Registers of Shipton Moyne, after the year 1643 AUTOGRAPHS OF SOME OF THE ESTCOURT FAMILY. FROM CHURCHWARDEN'S BOOK ^A^ fe %f^ ^A ^ 3^>vY^ f^hrviy^^Uj- 'iij AUTOGRAPHS OF LORD & LADY BERKELEY. FROM DEEDS -1632. 247 1573 January 30, John Estcourt, bur. 1574 February 1 1, Walter * Edward Estcourt, bur. February 19. Margaret > Estcourt, bur. 1575 January 23, Ursula > Estcourt, d. of — Estcourt, bur. February 10, Mary, d. of Mary and Thomas Estcourt, bur. 1593 September 7, Mary, d. of Thomas Estcourt, bur. 1599 December 4, Thomas Estcourt, Esq., bur. 1681 November 15, Thomas Estcourt, Esq., bur. 1693 December 7, Mrs. Elizabeth Estcourt, widow, bur. 1758 September 21, Edmund Estcourt, Esq., bur. 1759 December 5, Lydia, d. of Matthew Estcourt, Esq., bur. 1760 March 6, Catherine, d. of Matthew Estcourt, Esq., bur. 176 1 February 21, Elizabeth, d. of Matthew Estcourt, Esq., bur. 1777 June 7, Mrs. Lydia Estcourt of Cam, bur. 1781 November 23, Mr. Matthew Estcourt of Cam, bur. 1785 September, Esther Estcourt, bur. 1802 The Rev. Edward Estcourt, L.L.D.; Rector of Newnton, Wilts, and of Oldbury and Didmarton, Gloucester- shire, died 17th of September, and was interred on the South side of the Chancel, in the burying ground belonging to the Estcourt fiunily, on the 20th day of March, following, aged 51. 1814 November 24, Edmund Estcourt, Esq. of Lasborough, Gloucestershire, bur. 1814 March 1 1, The Honble. Jane Estcourt, the Priory, Long Newnton, Wilts, bur., aged 87. 1829 July 3, Eleanor Bucknall Estcourt, New Park, Wilts, and Estcourt, Gloucestershire, aged 49 1853 August 2, Thomas Grimston Bucknall Estcourt, aged 77. 9 These Christian names are doubtful, being almost illegible in the Register. 248 From Monumemts in Shiptok Motnx Church. 1726 October 23, Walter Estcourt, d. aged 82. 1746 October 6, Thomas Estooort, d., aged 49. 1818 December 2, Thomas Esteourt, d., aged 70. 1829 February 3, Honble. Jane Esteourt, widow of Thomas Esteourt, d., aged 80. 1846 September 16, Walter Grimstone Bucknall Esteourt, fourth son of T. O B. Esteourt, d., aged 38. Extracts from Long Newnton Parish Registers RESPECTING THE ESTCOURT FaMILT. 1669 December 29, Sir Thomas Esteourt and Mrs. Annie Kobham mar. 1673 January 22, Alexander Hatton, Gent, and Mrs. Amy Esteourt, mar. 1648 March 8, Amy, d. of Sir Giles Esteourt, bap. 1663 April 6, Giles, s. of Sir Giles Esteourt, Bart, bom. 1654 May 15, William, s. of Sir Orfed Esteourt, bom. 1 655 July 2, Grace, d. of Sir Giles Esteourt, bora. July 2, Annie, d. of Sir Giles Esteourt, bom. 1655 July 6, Lady Annie Esteourt, wife of Sir Giles Esteourt, bur. 1655 October 6, Grace, d. of Sir Giles Esteourt, bur. 1668 November 18, Sir Giles Esteourt, bur. 1673 July 15, Richard Esteourt, Esq., bur. 1684 Sir William Esteourt, Bart, murdered in London. 1689 Henry Esteourt, Gent, bur. 1697 Margaret, wife of Giles Esteourt, Gent, bur. 249 The following Pedigree shews the Descent (through THE Female Line) of the Cotes of Woodcote, Salop, FROM THE De BrAOSE's, LoRDS OF TeTBURT. William de Braoie, Lord of Breck-»Maad, d. of Richard Earl of Clare nock, famiflhed in Windsor Castle I Peter, second son, died in the Holyss Land, 25 Hen. III. (1241) < Sir Peter de Braose of Gloacester,BB temp. Edw. I. and £dw. IL I Alice de Braose ^Ralph do St. Owen I Arms, Qules, 3 chcv. or John de S. Owen of Qerurston and=Joane d. and heiress of Sir Hugh Bnrton T^rell, Lord of Bromscroft and lu)rman's Croft, Co. Stafford Arms, az. a lion rampant, argt. within a bordure indented, or John de S. Owen, Lord of Burton,= Elisabeth d. of . . Barkley Co. Hereford I Joane, d. and at length heiress, obt=Boffer Downton of Downton, Co. Hereford. Arms, 3 Piles in chief meeting in base, sable 4 Hen. IV. Thomas Downton = Margaret d. of Richd. Lingaine of I Lingaine, 2nd wife Elizabeth, 3rd d. and co-heir = John Cotes of Cotes, Co. Stafford, High Sheriff of Stafford, 35 Hen. VL Arms, 1st and 4th ermine, and and 3rd Hnrophrejr Cotes, of Cotes, slain at= Elinor d. of Sir Hamphrejr Blonnt Bosworth Field I John Cotes, of Cotes and Woodcote,= Ellen d. of Richd. Littleton of Co. S alop , served in France, temp. Hen. VIIL PillatOD, Co. Stafford, 2nd wife John Cotes, of Cotes and Woodcote s= Jane d. of John Bradock of Adber- I stone, Co. Stafford John Cotes, of Woodcote sMary d. of Sir Anthonj Coleloogh John Cotes of Woodcote, High sKair d. of Walter Bagot, Esq. of Sheriff, Co. Salop. 1614 J Blithfleld 250 John Cote8= Dorcas d. of Sir George Clarke, Bart, of Watford, Co. North- ampton Charles Cote8=Lettice d. of KUdare, Snd Lord John Coles of Woodcote, mar. 1700, sDorothjr d. of Bobt Earl Ferrers, obiit 1756. I obit 1721 Shirley Cotes bEUs. d. of FranciB Chambre of I PMton, Ca Salop Lucy d. of Lord Yisct. Coortenay.ss John Cotes of Woedcote, ILP. for roar. 19 Oct, 1777 I Co. Salop John Cotes, BC.P. for Salop =8 May, 1794, Maria d. of George Harry, 5th E. of Stamford and Warrington John Cotes of»Lottsia Harriett, Rev. Chas. Cotes, =Francis,d. of Sir Woodcote, High Sheriff Ca Sa- lop, 1826, M.P. Co. Salop, 1834. 8rd d. and co- Rector of Stan- I Geo. Pigot, Bt, heir of Charles, ton St Qninton, J of Patshall, Co. lastEariofLiy- Wilts | Stafibrd erpooL Arms, | as. a fess wary, Issne. Ajst charged with a cross pa- tee gnles, in chief two estoi- les,or Victoria, for whom Her Majesty stood Sponsor. 251 CHAPTER VII. Notes on the Geology of Tetbury.* The town of Tetbury stands on a sKght eminence, which may geographicaUy be described as a knoll of the Cotteswold range of hills. The approaches to it (especially the one £rom Ciren- cester,) are, first, by a descent from the surround- ing hill, and then crossing a slight valley, we make an ascent up a steep road, through the streets, which all incline with a greater or less angle of dip towards the valley. The land around the town is very fertile, especially for the Cotteswolds, most of it being in meadow. The vale is watered by a small rivulet ; and the neighbouring hills all around yield stone of various qualities ; the freestone, of which the town is built, being of the age and character of the Bath building stone, whilst some of the upper beds of the district afford a > I am indebted for the following notee on the geology of Tetbniy toProfeeeor Buckman, F.6.S^ FX.S., Ac, of the Royal Agricultoral College, Cireneester. 252 fissile limestone, much used for roofing purposes ; whilst lime, both for building and agriculture, may be procured in abundance and of good quality. That in this district the hills do not lose their character of the "stony Cotteswolds/' may at once be observed, from the prevalence of waUs in field partings ; and those who are accustomed to observe the quality of stone, will soon be aware that various layers of stone are employed for this purpose, as at one place a road'-side wall wiU be made of flat slabs of a reddish brown silicious limestone ; further on, it will be com- posed of limipy squared blocks of true freestone; while still further, the hard and flat sharp-^ged slabs will betoken an entirely different layer ; so that, indeed, according to the amount of elevation in the district. 80 the abundant qiiames wiU yield stone of diverse character, and fit for different purposes. However, all the beds which will come under review for our present purpose, belong to what geologists term the Oolite^ Rocks, and all have reference to that part of the series called Great Oolite, which extends in a scarcely broken line from the neighbourhood of Stroud to Bath, being at 3 From woVf egg, and XiOoc, stone, as the sabstance of many of the beds is made up of small granules simulating the roe or eggs of fishes. 253 Stroud underlaid by the inferior, or Lower OoKte ; hence, then, the former is the prevailing rock of the South Cotteswolds firom Bath, through Tet- bury to the heights around Stroud, whilst the North Cotteswolds are more occupied by the lower beda Here, then, our description of rocks will have reference to the following : 3. Forest Marble, consisting of layers of more or less sandy and fissile oolite, intersected by thick bands of a blue tenacious clay. 2. GreaJt Oolite. The white freestone and lime- stone, in thick blocks, fissile at the base. 1. FvUen^s Earth. A blue unctuous clay, which separate the great from the inferior oolite beds. 1. The FuQer^s Earth is a deposit of a blueish clay and marl, which separates the two oolites ; and, as it is an impervious bed underlying the porous stones of the Great Oolite, it is the source whence arise the springs of the valleys in the Tetbury district, and so gives rise to the Avon, which runs thence through Malmes- bury and Chippenham to Bath and Bristol It may be seen weU exposed at its outcrop towards the Cotteswold scarps, such as at Kushmire Gate, and is also arrived at in well sinking. The geologist, however, will find the best exhibition of this stratum on the top of the Sapperton Tunnel, on the Great Western Railway, as here 254 it was removed in making the tunnel, which for a great distance runs through it. At this place and at Rushmire, we have collected the following fossils^ which are, for the most part, in great abundance. Ostrea acuminata^ Avicvla echinata, Pholadomya truncata (Buckman,) Pecten vaganSy Terebratula globata, RhynconeUa media. The fossils are usually well preserved, but of a dark blue colour, from contact with the clay, which is of a like tint, from the quantity of protoxide of iron which it contains. 2. Great Oolite is a thick stratum, attaining at Tetbury as much as 100 feet. It may be divided into three stages for the district under review. 3. Beds of white freestone, with oblique ^ cleavage, about - - - - 20 2. Blocks of building and limestone - 60 1. Beds of a sandy ooUte, breaking up into thin blocks with squared edges, the Stonesfield Slate of the North Cotteswolds, about - - - - 20 1. This lower bed has much of the texture of the true Stonesfield Slate of Oxford and parts of the Cotteswolds ; at the same time, it is not so fissile, so that tiles are not here made of it, though it affords good flat and square slabs for walling. U «. indeel of the same l^-. but being remo^S fix>m those tidal influences which, in the Stonesfield 255 Slate, has resulted in a mixture of such terrestrial remains as plants and insects, with marine shells of several species, this lower bed in the Tetbury district bears evidence of having been further in the middle of the oolite sea, as it contains bits of broken stems, and portions of vegetable matter, drifted further from the main deposit, intermixed however, with many of the same marine shells as we find at Stonesfield, near Oxford. The shells, which mark this bed in the neighbourhood of Tetbury, are as follow : Ostrea acuminata, Pecten vagans^ Trigonia (two species,) Lima cardiiforme^ Lim^i duplicata, Cardium gibberulum, Nucida micronata, Acteon, Mdania, Delphinula, and other univalves. 2 and 3. The two upper beds are soft and porous, easily chiselled into architectural forms, and when* carefully quarried is one of the best and most durable building stones in the kingdom. The lower bed of the two is the one which yields the magnificent blocks of freestone, which are transported from Box all over England. The obliquely laminated slabs are much used for paving and the like purposes. The fossils of these beds are very numerous. My friend Mr. John Lycett, of Minchinhampton, in his beautiftd Monograph^ of the Fossils of the > This work, which forma part of the magnificent series of the Palaeontological Society, should be in the hands of all stadents of oolite geology. 256 Great Oolite, has figured and described several hundreds of these. The following are amongst those which we have collected in the neighbour- hood of Tetbury : Terebrattda maxillaia, (fine specimens, occur in a slight band of marl which separates the beds 2 and 3,) Bhyncondla media^ Pecten vagans^ Pecten lameUosits, Lima cardiiforme, Cardium Buckmanni (Lycett,) Cypricardia rostratOy Iso- cardia tenera, Pachyrisma grande, in the hard white limestone. Trigonia costaJta var. ptiUus. Lima duplicata. Purpuroidea nodvlata: This univalve, which has been found in such perfec- tion at Minchinhampton, occurs both in the neigh- bourhood of Cirencester and Tetbury, in the hard band of limestone, but only in the shape of casts. Naiica, Nerincmy Alaria^ in the shape of caste and portions of other univalves. Palates of Psammodus, NucUolites Woodwardiy and other JEchinoderms in the same zone as the species named after the accomplished curator of the British Museum, occurs in the Cirencester district. 3. The Forest Marble stone is so called firom Witchwood Forest, where it is extensively quar- ried, and the thicker slabs polished for rougher ornamental work. In the Tetbury district it is mostly quarried for walling and road metal The intersecting clay bands give rise to nume- rous small springs in a wet period, and forms what the farmer terms "sour land," where not 257 efficiently drained A wide stretch of this may- be seen between Hodmarton and Tetbury. The fossils of this bed are very numerous, but they are generally in so broken a state as to ren- der identification very difficult. They are, however, mostly those of the Great Oolite, the following of which greatly prevail : Ostrea. Lima cardiiforme. Pecten vagans. Pecten lens. Pecten lamellosiLS. Modiola Lack- enhyi. Avicvla. Leda lachryma. Cylindrites, Stomatia, FissureUa : All new species of univalves may be found to distinguish this stratum. The Forest Marble slabs are of great in- tereet from the ripple marked and ridged surfax^es they so often present, giving us the evidence of " ribbed sea sand " in past ages, when the Cottes- wold formed the bed of the ocean. They are further mteresting from the tracks which their surfaces have handed down to us of Cmstaceans (crabs,) of the ancient sea ; tracks of Gasteropods, stomach-walkinfi: creatures, (imivalves,) and lines kft by the p4e«ion of l<^ tether with the holes where they have disappeared in the soft and yielding sea sand, having been, as now. daUy added to and moistened by the ever recurring tidal wave. The beds just described are evenly and regularly disposed ; that is, are conformable. One on the other, they are tolerably uniform in thickness, and are found in the following localisation about s 258 Tetbury : the tops of the hills are of Forest Marble. The hill on which the town of Tetbury stands is probably just capped with it. The slopes of the hills (that is, their scarps,) are of Great OclUe. And the watered valleys rest on the Fuller's Earth. This will be made more plain by the following diagram: 1. FuUer's earth. fl. Great Oolite. 8. Foraet ICarUe CUy. Water Bearing Strata : From the order of superposition of the strata^ it will be seen that the heights of Tetbury and those around it are, for the most part, composed of a porous rock, Great Oolite, resting upon a day or an impervious one, the Fuller's Earth; hence, then, the Great Oolite is a collecting bed, or a water filtering area, and the FuUer's Earth below a water bearing bed, so that, where the valley cuts the Fuller's Earth, springs break out on the one hand, whilst the elevation above this latter stratum must be got through in well sinking on the other. The wells, therefore, at a 6 c will vary according to the level, and we may state them hypothetically, for we could not measure them, as follows : 's sw^ j ^ j -wT i T^ f^^^m^'^^^mmm^^^m'mmmmm^^^^mmmif^^^^^a^ 269 1. At the highest part of the town, *"*• the Talbot, about - - - - 120 2. The Town Well .... 90 3. Welk on the slope - - - . 30 Thus, then, in this point of view Tetbury offers a curious exception to anything like an important town being built so far above a water level, as the expense of deep wells is enormous, and the depth here has to be attained by working the whole distance in hard stone. The situation of towns is mostly influenced by a facility for getting water, either from rivers or shallow wells. Thus the neighbouring town of Cirencester has the River Chum, a tributary of the Thames, nmning through it, besides which it is in a valley of de- pression ; that is, the space on which it stands has bodily fallen in, just as though the hill on which Tetbury rests had suddenly dropped to a level with the valley aroimd it ; and, as the upper stratum is a thick bed of Forest Marble clay, covered up with gravel from the once broad and brawUng Chum, the gravel is the collecting area, whilst the clay is the water bearing one» so that the wells in Cirencester are only of from 10 to 25 feet deep. This subject of wells, therefore, renders the geology of Tetbury of peculiar interest to those who study the physical aspect of a district as influenced by geological arrangement and phe- nomena ; and, as the country around Tetbury is s* 260 much cracked (faulted,) in the language of the science, the student resident at Tetbury or its neighbourhood, may gather rich stores of know- ledge by investigating its strata^ and contemplating the changes that have gone on since its materials formed the bottom of the ocean. 261 APPENDIX I. A Chronological Table or Events Connected with THE Town. A.D. 680. At this period a Saxon Monastery existed here. {Vide Dugdale, toI. i., p. 811.) 1140. A Cistercian Monastery founded here by Reginald de S. Walerick. 1160. A Chorch built here by Bernard de S. Walerick. 1170. The Cistercian Monastery removed to Kingswood ; leaving a Grange at Tetbury. 1400. At this period the tower of the present Parish Church was built, 1467. A Deed of Arbitration executed between the Abbot and Monks of the Abbey of Eynsham, Oxfordshire, anil the Parishioners of Tetbury, by Dr. John Car- penter, Bishop of Worcester, who had been chosen Arbitrer by both parties. 1547. Advowson of Tetbury granted by Henry VIII. to Christ Church, Oxford. 1586. An inquisition held at Tetbury, under the statute oi charitable uses. 1589. The Churchwardens' accounts commence from this date. 1631. March 25. The Register of Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials commenced from this date. 1632. The Manor and Advowson sold, by George Lord Ber- keley, to the town. 1640. The tolls of fairs and markets purchased by the town. 262 1643. Aug. 8. King Charles I. vbited this town. 1663. Ang. 3. Richard Talboys, Esq., one of the original Feoffees, died, aged 87. 1664. Charles II. passed through this town. 1687. Sept. 6. James II. passed through on his way to Bath. 1722. Seven new bells placed in the Church tower; Giles Bodj and Matthew Wilkins being Churchwardens. 1730. May 13. Peter, Lord King, being then Lord Chan- cellor, ordered that fifteen boys only should be educated at Mrs. Hodges' charity. 1749. Sept. 29. New pump under the Market house, opened ; erected at the expense of Rev. John Wight 1 749. This year a set of chimes was given to the Church by Rev. John Wight. 1762. Upton house built. 1766. Sept Riots all over England. At Tetbury the rioters took the cheese and bacon from the provision houses, and sold the cheese at 3d, the bacon at 4d per lb. 1766-67. The Priory buOt 1771. July 11. At Tetbury races this day, H.R.H. Frederick, Duke of Cumberland, won the plate. 1777. Jan. 19. New Parish Church began to be built. 1777. May 17. The wife of a tradesman murdered her son. 1777. Nov. 24. The Rev. John Wight, for 36 years Vicar of this parish, and a great benefactor to it, died, aged 70. 1781. Oct 7th. The new Parish Church first opened. The Rev. T. C. Wickes, D.D., the Vicar, preached. 1783. New part of the Churchyard, near the Bartons, con- sisting of twenty-two perches, consecrated by Saml. Hallifiuc, D.D., Lord Bishop of Gloucester. 1789. July 24. Tetbury races. Duke and Duchess of Beau- fort, Lord and Lady Clifford, Sir Geo. O. Paul, Bart, &c., &c., present. 1789. Feb. 3. Tetbury Church struck by lightning, and severely damaged. ' 263 1793. Jan. 6. Meeting held in the Town Hall against Re- publicans and Levellers; Robert Clark, Esq., in the chair. 1796-98. High Grove built. 1803. Aug. 16. Enrolment of the Tetbury Volunteers. H. H. Sloper, Esq., Captain ; R. C. Paul, John Wood, Esqrs., Lieutenants; H. J. Biederroan, Ensign. 1803. The eighth bell placed in the tower. J. Rich and R. M. Warman, Churchwardens. 1805. March 26. Colours presented at E[ingscote, by the Countess of Berkeley, to the Tetbury and Horseley Volunteers; Lieut.-Colonel Saunders commanding. 1813. Oct. 28. Meeting held at the Town Hall, at which it was agreed to apply to Parliament for an act to enable the Feoffees to enclose the Common. 1816. Town Hall and Market House rebuilt. 1817. Town paved, under the authority of an Act of Par- liament. 1817. Sept 8. Tetbury Savings' Bank established at a meet- ing held in the Town Hall ; the Duke of Beaufort in the chair. 1818. Sept. 28. The Tetbury Dispensary established at a meeting held in the Town Hall; Thomas Estcourt, Esq., in the chair. 1818. Manor of Doughton sold by Thomas Talboys, Esq., to J. P. Paul, Esq. 1831. The Tetbury troop of yeomanry cavalry raised by T. G. B. Estcourt, Esq. 1836. The town first lit by gas. 1836. Boys' and girls' school built; the foundation stone being laid by Miss Eleanor Wood, aflerwards Mrs. Brookes. 1837. Oct. 28. The tithes of this parish commuted by agreement under 6 and 7 William IV., c. 71. 1839. Advowson of living sold to John Stanton, Esq., under authority of an Act of Parliament. 264 1844. The Manors of Upton and Charlton aold by Lord Dacie to R. S. Holford, Esq. 1846. March 31. The foundation stone of S. Saviour's Chapel of £ase laid by Miss Frampton. 1848. Aug. 23. S. Saviour's consecrated by J. H. Monk, D.D., late Lord Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol. 1850. Bojs' and girls' School much enlarged. In&nt School built. 1855. Feb. 16. Tetbury Institute established at a meeting held in the old reading-room in the Chipping; Josiah T. Paul, Esq., in the chair. 1856. May 2. Peace with Russia proclaimed from the Town Hall, by J. T. Paul, Esq., Town Clerk. L Charter of King Ethdred to Malmetibury Albey, Charted ad cenobium Malmesburiense spectantes. Quo modo idem Bex dedit eidem EcclesiaB quindeceim cassates juzta Tetteburi. Li Nomini Domini nostri Jesu Christi saluatoris. Nihil intuHmus ut apostolicum testatur oraculum, in hunc mundum verum nee auferri quid possumus. Iccirco terrenis ae caduds etema et mansura mercanda sunt Qua propter ego ^thelredus Bex Merciorum rogatus, a patritlo meo et pro- pinque meo cenfrito pro remedio anime mee, ac pro oratione fratrum in Meldunesburg Deo servientium xv. caascttoa prope Tettctn moncuierium Aldhelmo Abbati libenter largitus sum. Si quis yero hunc donacionem augere et amplificare voluerit, augeat Deus partem ejus in libro vite, quod si quis tyrannic^ potestate fretus demere vel auferre satagerit, sciat te coram Christo noyemque Angelorum ordinibus in tremendo examine 265 radonem redditamm. Scripts est autem hec Cjrographi cartula anno ab incarnacione Domini dclxzx. Indictione ix. + Ego Theodorus gracia Dei Archiepiscopus confirmari.^ + Ego Saxulphus epiacopus similiter.' + Ego Bosel episcopus subscripsi.' + Signum manus iEthelredi regis Merciorum.* + Signum Cenfrithi Comitis. II. Charter o/Beginald de S. Walerick to Eyneaham Abbey. Reoinaldus db Sancto Walbbico, salutem, &c. Sciant quod ego dedi monasterio de Ejneshani ecclesiam de Tette- buria, pro salute Henrici regis, et A. reginae Anglise, et liberorum suorum, et pro salute me&, et Bernard! filij mei, et pro animabus patris et matris mesB et antecessorum et benefiuitorum meorum. Concedo etiam prsedictaa ecclesiaa terram de Finestoches sicut Radulphus Basset eum dedit, et Godrefridus, Abbas de Eynesham et conventus dederunt mihi X marcas argenti, et Bernardo filio meo ij marcas, teste Roberto capellano, Waltero de Bleia, Radulpbo Hareng. 1 657. After that another Archbishop came to Canterbniy, who was called Thsooorus, a very wise and good man; and he held his Synod with his clergy. Then was Winfred, Bishop of the Mercians, deposed from his Bishopric; and Abbot Saxolf (Saxulphus) was then chosen to be Bishop, and Cnthbald, a Monk of the same Monastery, was chosen Abbot This Synod was held 673 years after the birth of Christ. '^Am^Sastm CkromcU. Archbishop Theodore died 690. He was Archbishop 22 years, and was buried at Canterbary; and Boorhtwald succeeded him in the Bishopric. Before this the Bishops had been Romans; but from this time they were English.— /6uil s Saxulphus was Bishop of Lichfield from 676 to 691, and previously Abbot of Medeshamsteden now Peterborough. * For an account of Bishop Bosel, see page 6 4 704. .£thelred son of Fenda, King of the Mercians, became a monk. He had been king 24 years. Coenred succeeded him. 266 Rbqinald de S. Walbbick greeting. Know ye that I have given to the Monastery of Eynesham, the Church of Tetbury, for the safety (of the sool) of Henry the E^ng, and Anne, Queen of England, and their children ; and for the safety of my own soul, and of Bernard my son, and for the souls of my fitther and mother and ancestors, and of my bene&ctors. I grant, also, to the aforesaid Church, the land of Finestoches, as Randulp Bassett has given it; and Godfrey, Abbot of Eynesham, and the Convent, have given to me ten marks of silver, and to Bernard, my son, two marks. Witness : Robert the Chaplain, Walter of Bleia, and Radulp Hareng. III. Grant of Bernard de S. WaUrick to Roger de Berkeley. Bernardus de Sakcto Walebico, omnibus hominibus et amicis suis, Francias et Anglias sal u tern. Sciant prsesentes et futuri quod ego Bernardus concessi Rogeri de Berkeley, et hseredibus suis auxiliem et consilium meum in curi4 domini mei regis Anglias salva fide meH et quitantiam in portu Sancd Walerici sibi et haeredibus suis, et omnibus hominibus mensas suse et ipse dedit et concessit mihi, annuenle R. filio suo xl acras terne apud Mireforde, ad removendam abbatbiam meam de Tettebiria. Testes, &c. Bbbnabd de S. Walerick to all men, and to his friends in France and England, greeting. Know ye, that are here present, or shall be hereafter, that I Bernard, have granted to Roger de Bercheley and his heirs, my assistance and advice in the council of my Lord the King of England ; save my alle- giance and quitance in the port of S. Walerick, to him and his heirs, and to all men at his table ; and he himself has given and granted to me R.. his son, assenting, 40 acras of land at Mireforde, to remove thither my Abbey of Tetbury. Witnesses, &c. 267 IV. Charter of Thomas de S. Walerick to Eynetiham Abbey. Carta Thomas de S. Walerico monachis de Egnesham, super eccl'iam de Tettebur» quam R. de S. Walerico, avis suus, dederat eis: THOifAS DE S. Walerico, omnibas hominibus suis Francis et Anglis salutem. Sciant praesentes et futuri quod ego concessi et prsesenti charta confirmavi Deo et ecclesiaa S. Mariffi de Egnesbam, et monacbis ibidem Deo servientibus in puram et perpetuam elemosinam et pro salute animas meae et patris mei et matris meae, et omnium antecessorum meorum, et baeredum meorum ecclesiam de Tettebiri, cum omnibus pertinentiis suis et libertatibus, sicut eam habent ex dono R. de S. Walerico avi mei. ♦••♦•♦•♦♦♦• Hujus autem concessionis et confirmationis meae prassenti scripto et sigillo meo apposito roboratae, testes sunt Clemens prior Osen. Magister Walterus sub prior S. Frideswydae, Magister Alardus de S. Mildrida. Rad. Hareng, Rad. de Norton, Rob. de Estrop, Rog. de Nova Foresta.^ Charter of Thomas de S. Walerick to the Monks of Eynes- ham, concerning the Church of Tettebiri, which Reginald de S. Walerick, his grandfather, hath given to them : Thomas de S. Waxebick to all his men in France and England, greeting. Enow je that are here present or shall be hereafter, that I have granted, and by the present charter have confirmed to God and to the Church of Saint Mary of Eynesham, and to the Monks there the servants of €rod, in pure and perpetual alms, and for the safety of my soul, and my fi&ther and my mother, and of all my ancestors and my heirs, the Church of Tettebiri, with all things pertaining to it and the liberties, as they have it from the gift of R. de 4 Dagdale's Montut^ vol. iil., p. 19. 268 S. Walerick, my grandfather • * • This grant and confirmation is my present writings and confirmed by my seal placed opposite. Clemens, Prior Osen, Master Walter sub- Prior, &c., are witnesses. V. Carta B. de Berkeley. [Ex Begistro Abb. de Kingeswode penes Johannem Smith di Nibley, in Com. Glouc. an. 1651.] B. DE Berkelst omnibus fidelibus qui litteras istas in- spexerint salutem. Notum sit vobis quod Willielmus de Berckley dedit abbatisB de Tyntema pro salute anims Henrici regis Angliae et suae, totum Kingeswode cum omnibus perti- nentus suis ad constniendan ibi abbatiam de ordine Cbterciensi et pater mens illud gratum habuit et ratum tenuit. £t post quam abbatia de Kingeswode translata erat ad Tettebinam, consensu patris mei B. de Berkeley ipse pater meus, conseusu et Toluntate me^ dedit et concessit Bernardo de Sancto Walerico, quadriginta acras apud Mureford ad removendam illud abbatiam suam quae fuit prius apud Tettebinam.' Hiis testibus, &c VI. Orant of William de Breuse to the Dree Burgesses of Tetbury of common pasture tn the North Hayes. 1 9 Ed. I., ( 1 291 .) To all true Chrysten people to whom this psent writtinge shall come to be scene or hearde, Wiluam of Breusb, Sonne and heir of Williah of Breusb, sondeth greetinge in our Lord God everlastinge. Know ye us to have remisede and granted for us, and our heires or assignes, to our free Burgesses of the Boroughe of Tedburie, the common pastour which do dayme to ptaine and belonge to their burgages in the pasture which is North Haye ; so that thaie, the said Burgesses, * Dugda1e*s Afonatt. Angl^ v. 425. 269 do use the same in the spring time as thaie have nsede it bie ann- ciente costome. In witness whereof to this present writtinge^ we have put to our seale, these bearing witnesse, Peter de la Mare, Knight, Henry de Mojngne, Rjchard of Wokaey, Adam Sylman, John of Seyntlej, John Mahele, AUande de Forwoode, and others. Dated at London, the Mondaie, the vith daie of the moneth. of Marche, in the njnetene year of the raigne of Kynge Edwarde. vn. Ee grant of Beginald de Brahm^ of the liberties former^ granted to the Burgesses of Tetbtay. Be it known unto all men, that Rainalds of Brahus have given, and bie this my psent writtinge, confirmed to the Burgesses of Tbdbusie, all liberties and customes which thaie have, or ought to have, in the town of Tedbubib, as the writings of the Lobd William of Brahus, my fiither, which they have, do shewe and testifye ; and because I wolde y* this, my confirmacon, maie abide and remaine sure and sted&ste, I have to this pnte writtinge put my seale, these bearinge witness: The Lord Pagan of Burchell, Hugh of the Ash, Walter of Tandey, Richard the sonne of Vincent, Symmes y* Clerk, and many others. vm. Be Orant of John de BrausOf of former UbertieSj to the Burgesses ofT^bury. Be it known to all men that I, Johk, of the Old Hall, have given, and by this my present writnnge, conferred to my Burgesses of Tedbubib, all liberties and free customes which ihaie were wont to have in the time of my ancestors, as it is contained in the writUnge which they have of the Lord Willm, of the Old Hall, my grandfather ; and that this my J 270 pnte graant and confirmadon may abide in bis force and effect, I bave to tbis pnte writtinge set my seale, tbese bearing wit- ness: WiUm. de Maca, Baynolde of Bolmron, Mr. Raife Mailon, Jobn Omll, Roger of Dunchton, Walter of Upton, Pbillippe of Tedbarie, and many otbers.^ IX. The Charter of King Edward IV. of the Memor of Almnuter to Weathury College, Thb Kmo to all to wbom, &c., greeting. Know ye tbat of our special favour and sincere love and affection wbicb we bear towards tbe College or Collegiate Churcb of West- bury, in tbe County of Gloucester, and tbat tbe Dean and Canons, and otber officers of tbe College and tbeir snocessorB, may in particular pray and implore God for our wel&re, and of Coecilia our motber, wbilst we live, and for our souls after we are dead ; and for tbe souls of our most dear fiitber, Ricbard, Duke of York, and of Edward, Earl of Rutland, our brother, we bave given and g^ranted, and by tbis our cbarter, bave confirmed, to Henry Sampson, clerk, Dean of tbe said College, and to tbe Cbapter tbereo^ tbe~ Manor of Aylminstre, otherwise called Elmystre, with its appurtenances, in tbe said County of Gloster, to bave and to bold tbe said Manor with the appurtenances, unto the aforesaid Dean and Cbapter and tbeir successor, of us and our heirs, in perpetual alms for ever, together with court leets, franck pledge, privileges, and otber liberties, profits, and commodities, to the said Manor belonging or appertiuning, tbe statute of &c., notwithstanding. In witness whereof, &c. Witness, tbe IQng at Westminster, tbe twenty-first day of March. 6 The Latio original of these three Charters are in the Town Chest, but they are in many parts illegible. 271 Extracts from Public Bolls bslatino to Tetburt.'' I. Rotiili Literarum Clausarum. 17 Johan. A.D. 1215. Rex Vicario Glouc, etc. Prtecip- simas tibi quod sine dilatione facias habere dilecto et fideli nostro Thom& de S. Walerico id quod de jure haberi debet in manerio de Tettibiri, et Hugoni de Mortuo Mari id quod habere debet de jure in eodem manerio. Ne amplius inde clam audiamus. Si quid autem de catallis que ipsum Thomam contingunt de eodem manerio captum vel amotum fuerit, id ei sine dilatione reddi facias. Testis me ipso apud Langar. zxvij die Dec. 18 Johan. A.D. 1216. Mandatum est vicario Glouc. quod habere fiicias eidem Hugoni plenam saisinam de manerio de Tbttebiri cum pertinentibus suis clam esse jus suum. T. ut supra. n. Calendarium Inquisitionem post mortem. 3 Hen. V. Num. 34. Gilbertus de Stonore fil' Bad'i de Stonore ten. Doughton terr' et terr* Tetteburye. 23 Hen. VI. Num. 24. Margareta quse fuit uxor Johannis Berkeley mllitis defunct' Tettebury maner' Gloucester. 13 Ed. lY. Jocosa Beauchamp vidua Tettebury maner* vill' et domini' cum membris Upton juxta Tettebury I ii/r.»a«„a«:- ^^^ Charleton et Doughtoi | Messuagia terr* f I have selected a few extracta from the Pablie RoUs lelatiDg to Tetbaiy, to illustrate the maimer io which the town is mentioned in them. The namber of references to it are far too numeroas for publi- cation, and would be of little use in a work such as the present. 272 20 Ed. IV. No. 72. JoWes GraTiUe MUes Tettebnry nuuier' vill' et domini' Upton JMta Tettcbnry I Measoacia torr^ Charlton and Donghton J ''^ Gloucest. 6 Hen. Y. No. 48. Georg' Brewes ai^ Upton jnxta Tetteboiy messuagia et redditns. Glouces. m. Testa de Nevill. Isti tenent de dno. B^e in capito in com' Glonc* Glouc* p. 77 b. Petrus fil' Herbti tenet Tbttkbir qae fecit W. de Braus de dono B. p. 79. b. Handnn de Langetr* In Tettebra zxxij came' . Upton. Osbertos de Grava tenet ana caruc' terre in UrroN p' archeriam. IV. Taxatio Ecdesiastica P. Nicholai. Tftzatio. £ M, 6. A ■. d. 24 2 8 2 4 Ecclesia de Tettebar Pret h. porco Abbas de Ejneshm Pret hie porco Abbas de Kjmeswood major' dec* in grang* de Tettebar' et de ^048 5^ uno Grufto rood inl etde >- V. Valor Ecclesiasticas Temp. Hen. VIII. Auctoritate Begis institutos— Tetborj Vicaria. Valet dare in reddit^ et firm' ana cam x'' ibm p ann altra xyj solat' pro sostentac' kmpad x* arctio ibm ij* pro cenag. et viii' dno epo pro Tisita* juxta rat^ cajuslt iij^ anni ij* VI d. XV 278 x Or a Collection of Tokens iaaned in the Seventeenth Century^ from 1650-1670, hy Tradesmen and Towns m the County of Gloucester, Those belonging to Tetbury are mentioned p. 238. They are as follows : 1. ob. Arrowsmith Obadiah rev. In Tetbury Baylef q"^ 2. ob. Stephens John rev. In Tedbury 1664 j j 3. ob. Swinnerton Antipas (a Woolpack) rev. Of Tedbury, Wollman j^^ T 4. ob. Teakle Samuel g ^ T rev. Clothier in Tetbury ^ ^ •5. ob. In Tetbury this farthing is owned rev. The armes of that Burrough Bbibf fob the Ripaibs of Tbtbubt Chitbch. Tetbary Church, in Com' Gloucester. Charge £2,600 and upwards; to be collected from house to house. T. Hickes, 12th Oct, 1730. G^rge the Second, by the Grace of Grod, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c., m^^^ - II I I — ^— 111 ■ ,1 I ■ - 1 By Mr. Phelps of ChATenage House, near Tctbnry. 874 to all and singular ArohbisliopSy Bishops, Archdeaoons, Deans, and their officials, Parsons, Vicars, Curates, jand all other fq>iritaal persons ; and to all Teachers and Preachers of every separate congregation ; and also to all Justices of the Peace, Majors, Sheriflb, Bailifis, Constables, Churchwardens, Chapel- wardens, Head-boroughs, Collectors for the Poor, and their Overseers; and also to sdl officers of Cities, Boroughs, and Towns Corporate ; and to all other our officers, ministers, and subjects, whatsoever they be, as well within liberties as without, to whom these presents shall come, greeting. Whereas it hath been represented unto us, as well upon the humble petition of the Minister, Churchwardens, and Inhabi- tants of the parish of Tetbury, in the County of Gloucester, as also by certificate under the hands of our truly and weU-beloved — Hyett, Esq., Dr. Walter Hodges, and Dr. Nath. Lye, ICinard de la Bere, Thomas Cooke, John Stephens, and Edward Field, Esquires, and several others, our Justices of the Peace for our said County of Gloucester, made at their General Quarter Sessions of the Peace, held at the Booth-hall in the City of Gloucester, in and for the said County, on the 15th day of July, in the third year of our reign — ^That the said parish Church and Chancel of Tetbuiy is a very antient builcting, con- sisting of four isles, which by length of time is become so very ruinous and decayed in the foundation, walls, and roof thereof, that the same cannot be repaired and amended without taking great part of it down ; and that the Parishioners and Inhabi- tants of the said parish have for many years last past, used their utmost endeavours to keep up and support their said Church and Chancel, having within few years coUected, laid out, and expended, above the sum of £600 in the repairs thereof; but being burthened with a numerous poor, (for whose maintenance they have for several years last past paid above three shillings in the pound, besides other parish duties and assessments,) they are not able, amongst themselves, to raise a sum sufficient to repair or rebuild the ruiaous and 276 decnjed parts of thoir said Church aDd Ghancal, which is now (notwithstanding their great care, and the expense which thej have already been at) in such manifest danger of felling, that the Parishioners cannot, without hazard of their livesy assemble therein for the public worship of Almighty God. That the truth of the premises hath been made to appear unto our said Justices in their open Sessions of Peace, not only by the petitioners, but also upon the oaths of divers able and experienced workmen who have carefully viewed the said Church and Chancel, who have made a moderate estimate and computation of the charge of repairing and rebuilding the said Church and Chancel, which amounts to the sum of Two thousand six hundred pounds, and upwards ; and the said parishioners having given us full satis£EU}tion, by the affidavit of some of the inhabitants of the said parish, of the truth of the matters aforesaid, and that they have done, and are still ready and willing to do, to the utmost of their power, to repair and keep up so antient a structure. But, finding themselves unable to raise so large a sum as will be necessary to go on with and finish so great a work, unless assisted by the charity of our well disposed subjects, they have therefore, most humbly besought us to grant unto them our most gra- cious letters patent, licence, and protection, under our Great Seal of Grreat Britain, to empower them to ask, collect, and receive the alms, benevolence, and charitable contributions of all our loving subjects, throughout England, Wales, and Berwick-upon-Tweed, for the repairing and rebuilding the ruinous and decayed parts of their said Church and Chancel. Unto which their humble request we have graciously con- descended, not doubting but that when these our inclinations for promoting so good a work shall be made known to our loving subjects, they will readily and cheerfully contribute their endeavours for accomplishing the same. Know ye, therefore, that of our especial grace and favour, and we have given and granted, and by these our letters 276 patent^ under our Great Seal of Great Britain, we do give and grant unto the Minister, Churchwardens, and inhalntants of the parish of Tetburj aforesaid, and to their deputy and deputies, the bearer and bearers thereof^ (authorized as here- inafter is directed,) full power, license, not only masters an4 mistresses, but also lodgers, servants, and strangers, withiil all and every our coundes, cities, towns, boroughs, hamlet^ cinque-ports, districts, parishes, chapelries, and aU other places whatsoever, throughout England, Wales, and Berwick-upon- Tweed, for the good intent and purpose aforesaid. And therefore, in pursuance of the tenor of an Act of Parliament made in the fourth year of the reign of the late Queen Anne, intituled, ''An Act for the better collecting Chaiitj Money on Brie&, by letters patent, and Preventing Abuses in relation to such Charities,'' our will and pleasure is, and we do hereby (for the better advancement of these our pious institutions,) require and command all Ministers, teachers, and preachers, Churchwardens and Chapelwardens, and the collectors of this Brief and aU others concerned, that they and every of them observe the directions in the said Act contained, and do in all things conform themselves there- unto; and that, when the printed copies of these presents shall be tendered unto you, the respective Ministers and Curates, Churchwardens, Chapelwardens, and to the respec- tive teachers and preachers of every separate congregation, that you and every of you, under the penalties to be inflicted by the said Act, do receive the same. And you the respective Ministers, and Curates, and teachers, and preachers, are by all persuasive motives and arguments earnestly to exhort your respective congregations and assem- blies to a libera] contribution of their charity finr promoting so good a work. And you the respective Churchwardens and Chapelwardens of the several and respective parishes within the Connfy of Gloucester, (and not elsewhere,) together with the respective 277 Ministers, or some of the substantial inhabitants of the several parishes accompanying you, are hereby required to go fix>m house to house within your respective iMuishes and liberties, within the said County of Gloucester, upon the week days next following the publication of these presents, to ask and receive from the said parishioners, as well masters, mis- tresses, and servants, as others in their fiunilies, their Christian and charitable contributions, and to take the names in writing of all such as shall contribute hereunto, and the sum and sums by them respectively given, and indorse the whole sums upon the said printed Briefe, in words at length, and sub- scribe the same with your own proper hands, together with the name of the place where and time when collected ; and enter the same in the publick books of account kept for each parish and chapelry respectively within the said County of Gloucester ; and the sum and sums collected, together with the said printed Brieft so indorsed, you are to deliver to the deputy and agents authorized to receive the same. And we do by these presents nominate, constitute, and appoint, the Most Noble Henry, Duke of Beaufort ; the Right Ilonourable Henry, Earl of Berkshire ; James, Earl of Berk- ley; Allen, Lord of Bathurst; and Matthew, Lord Ducie; the Right Reverend Father in God Joseph, Lord Bishop of Gloucester ; the Honourable Henry Berkeley, Esquire ; and Sur John Dutton, Baronet ; the Reverend Walter Hodges, Doctor in Divinity ; Thomas Estcourt, Nathaniel Stephens, John Stephens, Benjamin Bathurst, John Neale, William Kingsbote, Joseph Small, William Vaughan, Samuel Shep- herd, Hawkins Chapman, and John Hickes, Esquires, and the Minister and Churchwardens of the parish of Tetbury for the time being, Trustees and receivers of the charity to be collected by virtue of these presenta, with power to them, or any five or more of them, to give deputations to such collectors as shall be chosen by the petitioners, or the major part of them. And the said Trustees, or any five or more. 278 are to make and sign all necessaiy orders, and to do all other reasonable and necessary acts for the due and regular collection of this Brief and advancement of the said charity ; and to see that the monies, when collected, be effectually applied for the repairing and rebuilding the ruinous and de- cayed parts of the said Church and Chancel. And, lastly, our will and pleasure is, that no person or persons shall receive any the printed Briefis or monies col- lected thereon, but such only as shall be so deputed and made the bearer and bearers of these presents or duplicates hereof. In witness whereof we have caused these our letters to be made patent, and to continue in force for one whole year, firom Christmas next, and no longer. Witness, Our self, at Westminster, the twenty fourth day of September, in the fourth year of our Beign. GrOD Save the Kmo. BOBERTS. The above is endorsed outside, Tetbury Church. Pray return all Brie& the next Visitation. T. GRANT, Collector. For Messrs. Hodgson and Worrall. £ s. d Collected upon this Brief at Hothfleld, in the County of Kent, the sum of one shilling, this twenty second day of August, in the year of our Lord One thousand, seven hundred, and thirty one .010 By John Norcross, I^Gnister. NICHO. RUSSELL, ) p. „,^,^„^ HENRY TERREY, / Churchwardens. 279 EXTUACTS FROM THE WiLL OF SiB Wm. BoMNET, BaRT. In the Name of God, Amen, for bo much as we have oot here any perpetuity or long reeidence, but are as pilgrims and strangers looking for a city whose builder is God eternal in the Heavens, and seeing the days of men passeth away swift, and death taketh us on the sudden, without giving warning or respit to bethink us, and being warned by the example of King Hezekiah to set our house and worldly affairs in order, because we must die, and having orderly disposed and settled my estate, I shall depart hence the more quietly in myself, and the more peaceably for others that I leave behind me. Therefore, I, William Romney, of the city of London, Unworthy Knight and Alderman, being in sound health and memory, I thank God for it, and desirous to go the way of all flesh at the good pleasure of God, do make this ray last will and testament, disannulling all former wills whatsoever by me made, in manner and form following : First, because my soul and spirit is the chief part of me, and come from above, I commend the same to the Father of Spirits, God Almighty, distinguished in three persons ; to wit. Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, but one in Deity and Godhead, most humbly beseeching the same God, of His infinite mercy, to pardon and forgive the infinite number of my sins, hoping and believing most assuredly in my heart that, all be it, my grievous offences have deserved the intolerable curse of Gk>d, and everlasting torments of Hell, yet, through and only through the obedience, hitter passion, and death of my sweet Saviour Jesus Christ, I shall not only be fully and freely ac^iuitted and discharged from all, both from the puiiishmonts and &ults, but also I shall be reputed righteous through his righteousness laid and clothed upon me; and so, finally, I shfUl inherit the unspeakable joys of the Kingdom of Heaven, 280 for He, the Lord of Glory, which knew no sm, was pleaaed to be made the price and ransom for my 8ins; and like as mj sins were laid upon Him to His death, so His righteousness shall be imputed to me for my everlasting life and salTation. Secondly, for that my body is from beneath of the base sub- stance of the earth, whence it came and whither it must return. I therefore commit and commend it to the grave, desiring that it may be accompanied with my kindred and friends, and Christianly buried with the smallest pomp of heraldry that conveniency will tolerate, at the discretion of my executrix, either in my Parish Church where I dwell, or in St Magnus on the Bridge, there lying my wife, good father, and mothers, and divers of my own children already, where my said body shall remain a corruptible lump until the last day, at what time I believe it shall be raised up again a spiritual body, joined again to my soul, clothed with incorruption and immortality, and made like to the glorious body of our Saviour Christ, and my most merciful Bedeemer shall then be my most gracious Judge. And from thenceforth I shall be ever with the Lord, in the Kingdom of Heaven, accompanied with His blessed Angels and Saints, in such joys as the eye of man hath not seen, the ear of man hath not heard, the tongue of man cannot express, nor his heart able fully to conceive ; which inexpressible mercies and everlasting blessedness I most humbly beseech the Lord to grant me, for his great Name's sake, and for Jesus Christ's sake, my only Saviour: Amen. Thus much of my win and desire, and briefly also of some part of my fidth and religion, concerning my body and soul, and the estate of them both, as weU in this life as in the life to come. All which I believe with my heart, (praying God to help my unbelief and to increase my frdth,) confess with my mouth, and write with my own hand. And thirdly, touching my worldly goods, whereof the Lord hath made me but a steward for a short time, and which should have 281 been taken from, if I had not been taken from it: I will, bequeath, and devise the same as hereiifier foUoweth. • «#•«« Item. I give and bequeath Ten pounds to be given and distributed to and amongst the poor people of the town of TetbuTj, at the discretion of my sister Butt, Henry Chap* man, Edward Chapman, Heniy Mayo, William Mills, Robert Wyer, and William Wyer, or any four or more of them, within six months of my decease. Item, Touching the lease term and interest I have fit>m and under the Right Honble. Lord Barcklay, of and in the marketts, waights, of wove yam and other things, towls, standingiB, and others profitts, in Tetbuiy, in the county of Gloster, my will and meaning is, that the issues, revenues, and profitts thereof^ shall go and be employed to their uses, intents, and purposes, and in manner and form here- under following (that is to say,) First, that the rent reserved and to grow due by and upon the said lease, be duly paid to the said Bight Honble. Lord Barkdey during the said lease, according to the said lease, at or within the term therein limited for the pajrment thereof. lUm^ that those shall be paid, given, and distributed weekly, and every week during the term of years contained in the said lease, to and for relief of the poor, sick, aged, and impotent persons there, the sum of five shillings, /(mi, to the end there may be provided, procured, and maintained some honest, godly, and sufficient schoolmaster there, to teach and instruct the children and youths of the said town and parish gratis to read and write, and to cast accounts in arithmetick, thereby the better and more sooner to become fit for service, both for their good and the good of the commonwealth. And therefore I do most earnestly recommend to them special care to be had that the schoolmaster shall be very skilfiil in arithmetick, which art teacheth much wit unto all sorts of men and traders, but is too litUe known, in our land especially, m owr Umd eepedalfy^ in our country towns and cities ; I say to 282 this end and purpoaes, I will that there shall be given, paid, and allowed, so long aa mj lease hath any being, to and for such schoolmaster, the sam of thirteen pounds a year, the same to be paid him quarterly by even portions. lUm. I will that six pounds a year shall be paid, given, and allowed towards a godly lecture or sermon, to be preached in the said town of Tetbury once in a week, besides that which the Parson or his deputy there per* formeth, whose care and duty in this behalf is not as it ought to be, the more pity, at such a day and time as the King's Bailiff for the time being, and his brethren that have been bailiffs, or the most part of them, whereof the said bailiff to be one shall think fit and expedient; the same six pounds to be paid quarterly by even portions. Item. I will that all the residue of the profitts, issues, and revenues, over and besides the charges and payments above-mentioned, shall remun and be to the bailiff of the King's majesty, his heirs and successors, commonly called the King's Bailiff of the said town of Tetbury for the time being, therewith the better to maintain and keep hospitality to credit and countenance his place for the well governing the town, and to keep such servants and officers as shall be needful for the service of the town, and for the just and true weighing of wool, yam, and other things. Itemj I will that the officer for the weights of weighing wool, yam, and other things, shall be solemnly sworn yearly, in the court or leet there, for trae and upright dealing between the byer and seller. Item. I will that nomination and election, placing and dis- placing, as weD as of the said lectures, the school-master, the officer for weighing, and the poor that shall receive weekly provisions as aforesaid, shall remain, and be on good, godly, provident and charitable, discretions, power, and treasure of the King's bailiff of that town for the time being, and of twenty other persons, honest, and discreet, of the said town, and his assistants, or the most part of them, of which twenty 283 persons I will, that Edmund Escott,] William Tanner, John Dryrer, Henry Mayow, Richard Huggens, Tobye Chapman, John Bentley, Thomas Huggens, William Wyer, and Edward Tanner, shall be thirteen ; and the same twenty persons I will, to be supplied and chosen from time to time, of the better sort, and most honest, discreet, and sufficient persons, inhabitants of the said town, among whom shall be so many such as have bom the office of King's Bailiff, old Geoi^ Escott and his sons always excepted and fore prized. And the election and choice shall be made by the King*s Bailiff for the time being, and the other assistants, such as have bom the said office there, if there are so many in the town ; if not, then others of the better sort of the inhabitants, (the said George Escott the elder and his sons excepted, who I forbid to have either hand or voice in this business,) or the most part of them, if they upon reasonable warning shall be present, they being at the least eleven persons so assembled and come together. But under eleven persons no act shall be of force, value, strength, or virtue. And I will that the said twenty persons above-mentioned, or the most part of them, four times in every year, or oftener if need and occasion so re- quire, by direction and appointment of the said King's Bailiff for the time being, shall assemble themselves together in the Tolsey or Town-house, or some other convenient place there, for the performance of that herein to them referred; and of my intent and tme meaning herein and therein, I will that the King's Bailiff for the time being from time to time shall be the chief director of the meeting and action, and shall have his voice with the rest. And in the scrutiny or lotts of voices, the said bailiff shall have two voices, if need be, to decide the difference or question ; and upon special trust and confidence for the good performance of the premises, and of my trao intent and meaning herein, I give and bequeath all my said lease and interest and i/sna of years to the said Edmund Escott, William Myles, Hany Chapman, 284 Edward Chapman, John Dryver, William Tanner, Hany Mayow, Bachard Haggens, John Bentley, Thomas Huggens, Edward Tanner, Toby Chapman, and William Wyer, willing withal, that the most part of them decreasing, assignment to be made and renewed to other discreet and honest persons, inhabitants of the said town, to be therefore named and ap- pointed to fill up the number of thirteen, by the least, by the one and twenty persons or the most part of them, upon like trust and unto like uses and intents as aforesaid. And further, I provide and will that no one man do or shall hold or contain in the said office of Elng^s Bailiff in the said town of Tetbury about the space of one year and some few days ; but i£, through favour of the Lord Barckley, or any other that may be lord of the town, or of any of his or their stewards, who have chief hand in the election of the bailiff, or through any other means, firiendship, plott, or devise, or what cause or pretence soever, the bailiff should be new elected for another year, or continued longer In his place or office than one whole year and some few days : then I will and appoint that all the revenues, profits, and sums of money which shall be collected and received for the weighing of wool, yam, and other things, whatsoever tolls standing or whatsoever, shall be wholly given to the lec- tures, to the poor, and to the schoolmaster of the said town of Tetbury, equally to be divided amongst them (that is to say,) the lecturer shall have the one third part, the poor shall have one other third part, and the schoolmaster shall take the other third part; but the King's Bailiff shall have no part nor portion thereof during the term of years which shall be then to come. Nevertheless, I hereby provide that it shall and may be lawful to and for the inhabitants of the said town, and the steward, to present and elect one man, if they shall think him fit and worthy to be the King's Bailiff, more than once or twice, so that there shall be three years, at the least, of vacancy between the times of his election, and in 286 such case such bailiff so elected shall enjoy the benefit of my said bequest Anything hereinbefore to the contrary notwithstanding. List of Acts of Parliament comnectbd with tbs Town. I. 5 George m. (1765.) An Act to apply a certain sum of money firom the sale of a house in Tetbuiyy in the county of Gloucester, and by donations of several persons for re-building the Parish Church and Chancel of Tetbury aforesaid. IL 54 George m., c 144. (1814) An Act for vesting certain common fields and waste grounds within the town and borough and parish of Tetbury, in the county of Gloucester, in trustees, discharged of any right of common thereon, and upon certain trusts declared thereof; (17th January, 1814.) The North Hayes or Warren contains The Hill ..... Several small pieces of waste land lying dis- persed in the lordship of the Manor • The Chipping Croft. Several small pieces of waste land lying dis- persed in the town and burroug^ A. R. P. 199 8 8 23 8 80 1 20 1 8 25 1 1 18 228 2 11 m. 57 George HI., c. 2. (1817.) An Act for paving the footways, and for lighting and cleansing the streets, lanes, and public places, within the town and borough of Tetbury, in the county of Gloucester, and for preventing nuisances therein ; (Hth March, 1817.) IV. 2 Victoria, c. 7. (1839.) An Act for the sale of the advowson of the Vicarage of Tetbury, in the county of Gloucester ; (14th May, 1839.) 286 ComOBSION FOB THE ADMISSION OF THB ReV. DaN. NoBBIS TO THE ViGABAGB OF TSTBUBT. Know all men by these presents, that the 17th day of November, 1658, there was exhibited to the Commission for approbation to pablique preachers, a presentation of Daniel Norris, Clerk, Master of Arts, to the Vicarage of Tetbury, in the county of Gloucester, made to him by Richard Talboys, Esq., John Sheppard, William Savage, and John Savage, gentlemen ; Obadiah Arrowsmith, Antipas Swinnerton, William Denning, Samuel Teakle, and John UndriU, the patrons thereof; together with a testimony in the behalf of the said Daniel Norris, of his holy and good conversation. Upon personall and due consideration of the premises, and finding him to be a person qualified as in and by the ordinance for such approbation is required : the Commission above-mentioned have adjudged and approved the said Daniel Norris to be a fit person to preach the Grospell, and have graunted him admission, and doe admitt the said Daniel Norris to the Vicarage of Tetbury albresaid, to be full and perfect pos- sessor and incumbent thereof. And doe hereby signify to all persons concerned therein, that he is hereby intitaled to the profltts and perquisitts, and all rights and dues incident and belonging to the said Vicarage, as fuHy and efiectually as if he had been instituted and inducted according to any such lawes and customs as have in this case formerly been made, had, or used in this realme. In witness whereof they have caused the comon scale to be hereunto affixed, and the same to be attested by the hand of the Register, by his Highness in this behalf appointed. Dated at Whitehall, the seaventhenth day of November, one thousand, six hundred, fifly and eight The aeal hiu the Royal Arms laid on a peculiar shield, with the words roand, *' The seale for approbation of pablick preachers,** and the name, M. Howia, probably that of the Begistmr, outside. The MS. from which this is taken is now in the British Museum. 287 Bishops of Gloucester from the Foundation of the See in 1541.^ 1541 September 20. The See founded. John Wakeman, last Abbot of Tewkesbury, consecrated, died 1549. 1550 May 15. John Hooper, deprived 1553, burnt Feb. 9, 1555. 1554 April 1. Jahbs Brookes, Master of Balliol College, Oxford, d. Sept. 7, 1558. See vacant three years. 1562 April 19. Rxchard Cheney, d. April 25, 1579. 1581 August 15. John Bulunoham, d. May 20, 1598. 1598 August 28. Godfrey Goldsborouoh, d. May 26, 1604. 1605 March 19. Thomas Bayis, Dean of Christ Church, translated to London May 18th, 1607. 1607 July 12. Hbnbt Parrt, Dean of Chester, translated to Worcester 1610. 161 1 March 15. Giles Thokfson, Dean of Windsor, d. Jan., 1612. 1612 July 15. Miles Smith, Canon of Hereford, d. Oct. 20, 1624. 1624 November 26. Godfrey GtOOdman, Dean of Rochester, d. Jan. 16, 1665. See sequestered in 1640. 1660 November 26. William Nicholson, Archdeacon of Brecknock, d. Feb. 5, 1672. 1672 October 10. John PRrrcHErr, d. Jan. 1, 1680. 1681 March 27. Robert Framfton, Dean of Gloucester, de- posed by William and Mary, Feb. I, 1691. 1691 April 23. Edwin Fowler, d. August 26, 1714. 1715. January 15. K. D. Wilus, Dean of Lincoln, translated to Salisbury 1722. 1 This list will be found usefnl for reference ; seTeral of Ihe Bishops here mentioned being referred to in the preceding pages. 288 1722 Jos. WiLCOCKB, tranfllated to Rochester 1731. 1781 Elias Stdall, d. 1734. 1734 Martin Benson, Prebendary of Durham, d. 1752. 1752 Jambs Johnson, Canon of St PauFs, translated to Wor* cester 1760. 1760 William Wabbubton, Dean of Bristol, d. June 7, 1779. 1779 Honble. Jambs Tobxe, translated to Ely July 21, 1781. 1781 July 24. Samubl Hallifax, translated to S. Asaph March 21, 1789. 1789 May 30. Bighabd Bbadon, translated to Bath and Wells 1802. 1802 April 21. Gbobgb J. Huntinqfobd, translated to Here- ford 1815 1815 July. Honble. Hbnbt Rtdeb, translated to lachfield and Coventry 1824. 1824 March. Chbistophbb Bbtbbl, translated to Bangor April, 1830. 1830 June 11. Jambs Hbmbt Monk, d. May, 1856. 1856 July. Chablbs Basing, D.D. 289 APPENDIX IL List op Vicaks. The Vicarage of Tetbnry was formerly in the Diooese of Worcester: (see page 98.) Henry VJJLl. founded the See of Gloucester in 1541 ; since that period Tetbury has been in the Diocese of Gloucester. Previously to this, no authentic account of the Vicars exists. I have only been enabled to discover the names of two or three. In 1279, during the Archbishopric of John de Peckham, temp. Edward I., Gregory de Karwent was Vicar of Tetbury ; 2 Richard IL (1388,) John Philip was Vicar; and in 1462 (2 Edward IV.,) Henry Allen was Vicar. The names of the Vicars since 1551 are as follows: Nftme of Vicar. Date of Instltatlon. Fatnm. Thomas Holt . 1551 Christ Ch., Oxford. Humphrey Horton 1556 « Henry Walmesley 1583 Henry, Lord Berkeley. William Edwards > 1614 Gkorge, Lord Berkeley. Daniel Norris * 1658 Feoffees of the Town. John Bliss * 1681 n William Scammel ^ 1712 >» Ralph Willet . 1726 » Miles Gastrell > 1728 » John Turner ® . 1739 » 1 Died Januaiy U, 1658. « Buried March 24, 1726. s Boned April 22, 1687. ^ Died December 9, 1738. 5 Buried June 23, 1712. 6 He was Chaplain to the Bishop of Gloucester, and in 1739 was pre- sented to the Vicarage of Somerford Keynes, Wilts. He died Dec 16, 1 741- V 290 Name of Vicar. Date of InaUtnlloo. FMraa. John Wigbt ^ . . 1742 Feoffees of the Town. Thos. Croome Wickes, • D.D. . . Dec. 16 1777 „ John Richardes ^ . April 22 1 786 „ Bichard Davies > . June 18 1792 „ Samuel Paul Paul > . April 1825 „ John Frampton . Aug. 29 1828 „ The advowBon was sold in 1839. Charles Stanton, Esq., is the present Patron. List of Lbctubebs. The Lectureship was founded in 1610, by Sir William Romney, who left £6 per annum for that purpose. It was raised to £10 on tlie purchase of the lease of the fairs, Ac, by the town. By the scheme confirmed by the Court of Chancery in 1830, £30 per annum was assigned to the Lec- turer; but it having since that period laid for some years in abeyance, the stipend now amounts to £38 3s. 4d. Formerly the lecture was delivered eveiy Thursday, and four Lecturers (usually the Clergy of the neighbouring parishes,) were ap« pointed. The duty now attached to it is to preach a sermon in the Parish Church, on every Sunday evening from the third Sunday in April to the third Sunday in September. The Feoffees appoint the Lecturer. The names of the Lecturers, as far as I have been enabled to collect them from MS. and other documents, are as follow : (reorge Bull, D.D., Bector of Avening, from 1685 to 1705, f A great benefactor to the town. Died Nov. 24, 1777. 9 Died March 81. 1766. 9 He was fonneiiy Lecturer and Schoolmaster here; alao Chaplain to the £arl of Pembroke. He died May 27, 1792. 1 Also Vicar of Horsdey. Died April 8» 1825. 9 Died July 29, 1828. He was baptised in 1781, being the first perwn baptized in the new Parish Church. 291 and afterwards Bbhop of St David's, was lor somo tiine Lecturer here. 1726 Bey. Mr. Lewis, of Holt 1788 Be v. John Bichardes. 1738 Bev. Mr. Hackman. Bev. Mr. Bowen. Bev. John Wight Bev. Mr. ComwaU. Bev. Mr. Bennett 1790 Bev. Bichard Davies. Bev. Mr. Bryan. 1792 Bev. Lancaster Dodgson. 1739 Bev. Mr. Gregory. 1799 Bev. W. Everett Bev. Mr. Freer. 1800 Bev. Mr. Thorpe. 1749 Bev. T. C. Wickes. From this date till 1844 the Lectures ceased, horn want of funds. 1844 May 7. Jacob Wood.' 1845 March 19. Jacob Wood.' 1846 April 22. Heniy Herbert Wyatt 1848 April 17. Henry Herbert Wyatt 1849 April 11. Thomas Lukjn Williams. 1850 March 25. Charles Fuge Lowder. 1851 March 29. Charles Fuge Lowder. 1852 March 90. James Hamilton.' 1853 April 5. Fred. Waters Greenstreet 1854 April 6. Fred. Waters Greenstreet. 1855 March 29. Alfred T. Lee. 1856 March 27. Alfred T. Lee. 1857 March. W. B. Brownlow. List op Cubatbs. 1598 Nicholas Bonner 1681 John King 1602 George Haines 1708 Mr. Lodge 1607 Bichard Lambert 1710 William Bishop 1612 Tobias Higgens 1735 Mr. Verreby Mr. Sheen 1740 John Wight, Vicar of Mr. Hicks Tetbury, 1741 to 1777 s £lectad, but did not serve. 292 1819 W. S. Biich, Sector of Easton Gkey&Lucking- ton, Wilts 1 820 Thomas T. L. Jones, late Incum. of North Niblej, Glooeestershire 1823 Edward D. Slade 1825 Thomas Davies 1828 Charles E^rck John Duffiis 1829 Heniy S. Sajce, Incum. of Shirehampton, Glou- cestershire 1831 Jacob Wood, Hector of Sjde, Gloucestershire 1 838 James Hogan 1839 Edward Hebson 1841 Peter Blackburn 1842 Joshua Bennett, Incum- bent of Cayersham, Oxfordshire 1843 Charles B. Garside 1844 Henry Walker, Incum. of S. Andrew's, West- minster T. H. Chase, Incum. of Ljdbrook, Gloucester- shire 1846 H. H. Wyatt, Incum. of Trin. Chapel, Brighton Charles F. Lowder 1849 T.L.Wimams, Incum. of Forthleven, ComwaU 1852 B. H. Poole, Incnm. of Beeston, Leeds F. W. Greenstreet 1853 H. H. Hardy, Yicar of Preston,Gloucestershire 1854 Richard Bramley Alfred T. Lee, Incum. of Elson, Gosport, Hants 1855 John Hughes 1856 Thomas J. Lee W. R. Brownlow List of Chubchwabdens. 1589 Edward Renter Thomas Bird 1590 Henry Mayo Robert Poole 1591 ]^chard Brinkworth Bayley Woodrofe 1592 John Warrant John Boxe 1593 John Hoopper John Howman 1594 William Myles George Estcourte 1595 Francis Taylcr John Chapman 1596 John Driver William Chapman 1597 George Potts Thomas Gwynn 1598 Robert Cotte Richard Hope 293 1599 Bichard Boxe Robert Gotte 1600 John Sandys Richard Webb 1601 Thomas Byne Edward Mayo 1602 Edward Chapman William Tanner 1603 Edward Carter John Apprichard 1604 William Taylor William Denninge 1605 John Browninge Richard Compton 1606 Thomas Hnggins Toby Chapman 1607 Heorie Norris John Watts 1608 John Driver Bryan Hooper 1609 William Wyer Jasper Chapman 1610 Henrie Nixon William Yaisey 1611 Thomas Brinkworth John Hooper, jun. 1612 Toby Chapman John Hooper, sen. 1613 William Tanner Charles Writte 1614 Richard George Robert Bird 1615 John Digby Henry Weller 1616 William lancke Richard Arrowsmith 617 Henry Cr^>pe Jasper Weyer 618 William Yaisey William Denninge 619 ( ^^""7 Mayo •< Arthur Tanner 620 i *«*«w iThomasByrd 621 Richard Boxe Roger Hiller 622 Robart Hibbart Thomas Goodall 623 Richard Hooper Charles Wright 624 Toby Chapman Thomas Burgess 625 Henry Wells Edward Mayo William lincke 626 William Yeysey William Denninge 627 The same WilUam Denning 628 629 1 Jasper Weare John Adey 630 Jasper Wyer John Adey 631 Richard Hooper William Hooper 632 Roger Webb William Lynke 633 Richard Arrowsmith Richard Hillyer 634 Henry Mayo Robert Hooper 635 Hugh Dun Toby Mayo 294 1636 Henry Willis John Wickes 1637 Toby Mayo William Denninge 1638 Arthnr Tanner John Adey 1639 Jasper Swinnerton John Shorlocke 1640 WiUiam Davies Obadiah Arrowsmith 1641 WiUiam Lincke Richard Player 1642 William Lincke John Browninge 1643 The same 1644 William Packer William Bachelor 1645 The same 1646 The same 1647 William Denninge Thomas Whittinge 1648 John Undrill 1649 Obadiah Arrowsmith Samuel Teakle 1650 William Davis Frands Hobbs 1651 Antipas Swinnerton John Miles 1652 The same 1653 Matthew Beale Timothy Okes 1654 The same 1655 William Hodges Henry Wells 1656 Thomas Curtis John Veysey of Upton 1657 Edward Pamell, aUas Bumell John Gkde of Doughton 1658 Samuel Brasington Joseph Browninge 1659 Mr. William Savage Thomas Whitinge 1660 The same 1661 Stephen Thomas AnUpas Swinnerton 1662 The same 1663 John Savage, gent. Christopher Harris 1664 Moses Wickes John Holland 1665 Richard Amos Edward Teakle 1666 John UndriU Edward Slopar 1667 Samuel Denninge Toby Mayo 1668 Frands Hobbes Samuel Saunders 1669 Samuel Teakle John Thomas 1670 John Sherman Nathaniel Body 1671 John Gale William Hooper 1672 Joseph Browning John Linkinghold 1673 John Vayzey James Stancomb 1674 Edward Pumell Thomas Morton 1675 Roger HiUer 295 William Hodges 1676 <& 1677 The same 1678 Isaac Browning Samuel Witcomb 1679 Thomas CuUimore William Mayo 1680 Charles Mayo Daniel Mason 1681 Jeremiah Watts Thomas Edgerley 1682 Nathaniel Mayo Samuel Wickes 1683 John Gale Robert Seale 1684 Christopher Harris Jonathan Shipton 1685 Edward Teakle Robert Mershant 1686 The same 1687 Charles Savage John Thomas, jun. 1688 William Jones William Dolman 1689 & 1690 The same 1691 Edward Sloper WiUiam Wickes 1692 Joseph Wickes William Damsell 1693 John Butler Joseph Punter 1694 The same 1695 Edward Teakle, jun. James Walkey 1696 to 1698 The same 1699 Nathaniel Batchelor Thomas Skammell 1700 John Taylor Nathaniel Body, jun. 1701 Gilbert Gastrell Nathaniel Body, jun. 1702 Nathaniel Cripps John Sloper 1703 The same 1704 1705 Samuel Saunders Jonathan Wickes 1706 Francis Savage Matthew Wilkins 1707 Thomas Deacon Jonathan Shipton 1708 The same 1709 John Wickes John Hillier 1710 to 1712 The same 1713 1714 John Weight Thomas Butler 1715 1716 Richard Talboys William Damsell 1717 GUes Body Matthew Wilkins 1718 to 1724 The same 1725 Giles Body 1726 GUes Body Eldward Esbury 1727 Giles Body 1728 Giles Body Christopher Clark 1729 The same 1730 Thomas Cooper, sen. Christopher Clark 296 781-2 733 734 Thomas Talboys Jofieph Wickes 735 to 1741 The same 742 Joseph Wickee Daniel Oatridge 743 744 745 746 Thomas Butler John Saunders 747 to 1752 The same 753 754 Nathaniel Saunders John Ledgenham 755 756 757 758 Joseph Wickes Samuel Saunders 759 Robert Clark John Paul 760 The same 761 Joseph Wickes, jun. Thomas Pike 762 Thomas Pike George White 763 & 1764 The same 765 Daniel Damsell William Fisher 766 The same 767 lliomas White Daniel Damsell 1768 Thomas Oatridge Daniel Damsell 1769 William TugweU Thomas Oatridge 770 The same 771 Hopeful Lockey Daniel Oatridge 772 Josiah Paul Tippetts Walter W. Pike 773 Edward Tugwell Wm. Ship. Osborne 774 The same 775 Thomas Cripps William Wood 776 777 Robert Wight William Bamford 778 The same 779 780 781 782 Thomas White John Tugwell 783 WiUiam Wood, jun. Samuel E. White 784 Samuel White Richard Crooper 785 Matthew P. Bamford John Rich 786 The same 787 Simon Rich T. Saunders 788 Giles Pike Joseph Cooper 789 Simon Oatridge T. F. Wickes 790 The same 791 Charles Wickes 297 John Arundell 1792 R. M. Warman Robert Warn 1793 Jos^h Woodward Thomas Alexander 1794 The same 1795 Jeremiah Bainton Robert Bamford 1796 Thomas Brookes Humphrey Tugwell 1797 Jeremiah Wigmore James Hill 1798 Thomas Hawkes George Hopkins 1 799 Robert Clark Paul James Pickett 1800 Thomas Spearing Timothy Shewing 1801 WiUiam Oram William HoUidaj 1802 R. M. Warman Simon Rich 1803 Simon Rich Thomas Seymour 1804 to 1806 The same 1807 Joseph Wood Joseph Smith 1808 Daniel Bennett H. A. Biedermann 1809 & 1810 The same 1811 Daniel Bennett John Cook 1812 Thomas Pike John Wood 1813 John Benjamin WilUam Rich X 1814 John Benjamin William Talboys 1816 to 1818 The same 1819 Jacob Wood . John Benjamin 1820 John Benjamin Stiles Rich 1821 Joseph Smith Stiles Rich 1822 T. E. Biedermann Joseph Brookes 1823 Joseph Brookes Henry White 1824 John W. Biedermann John Allaway 1825 The same 1826 James R. Dacres John Allaway 1827 James R. Dacres John Cook 1828 James R. Dacres Charles Wickes 1 829 Joseph Brookes Charles Wickes 1830 The same 1831 Charles Paul Samuel A. Saunders 1832 & 1833 The same 1834 Thomas Poulton William Tayler 1835 to 1839 The same 1840 Joseph Wood W. A. Glover 1841 The same 1842 H. E. Relton W. A. Glover 298 1843 Jacob Wood W. A. Glover 1844 George Clark Thomaa Ind 1845 to 1847 TheBame 1848 George Clark WilUam urn 1849 Edwin Cook William Till 1850 Edwin Cook Bidiard Barber 1851 to 1855 The same 1856 George Cave Joeiah T. Paul 1857 The same LlfTT OF FbOFFKXS. The first FeofTees seem to have been appointed in 1632, when the town bought the Advowson and Market Tolls of Lord Berkeley. Their number must not exceed seven. 1632 Bichard Talboys Gilbert Gastrell Bichard Boze Toby Chapman 1683 John Sarage Jasper Chapman Charles Savage Francis Savage Giles Stedman John Thomas Christopher Harris 1707 Matthew Wilkins, senr. Nathaniel Body, senr. Jonathan Shipton Samuel Saunders 1714 Toby Mayo 1718 Gilbert Gastrell Joseph Wickes George Wickes Nathaniel Cripps Giles Body, d. July 21, 1738 1721 Joseph Punter 1738 Dec. 11, Samuel Saunders Francis Savage > 1739 Nov. 15, Thomas Butler Joseph Wickes Charles Clarke, d. June 8, 1743 William Savage James Randolph 1753 Samuel Saunders Thomas BuUer Joseph Wickes Christopher Clarke 1778 Bev.T. Croome Wickes Samuel Saunders Robert Clark HopefoU Lockey Edward Tugwell 1 When Bev. John Tnrner was appointed Vicar, these were the only EeofitBee. 299 Thomas Pike, senr. 1786 Wiltiam Fisher 1790 Rev. John Savage Josiah Paul Paul Robert Clark Thomas Saunders William Byam Robert Wight William Wood, senr. 1803 Thomas White, of Long Newnton Richard Cooper John Arundel Rev. Thos. F. Wickes 1816 June 27, William Wood Charles Wickes John Paul Paul R. M. Warman 1822 Nov. 28. Robert Clark Paul was appointed in lieu of William Wood, d. 1823 Mar. 27, John Wood 1828 June 26, Jacob Wood 1829 Mar. 5, George Paul 1829 Sept 17, Henry White 1831 June 28, Joseph Overbury 1832 Oct. 23, Stiles Rich 1836 June 6, John Warn 1836 Nov. 15, Charles Paul 1838 Oct. 18, John Cook i 1844 Oct24,WALTERMATTHEW8PAUL* Josoph Overbury, d. 1844 Nov. 28, Joseph Wood " John Wood, d. 1845 March 13, Fredssick B. Whifb > R. M. Warman, d. 1846 Nov. 20, William Tatleb > Charles Paul, d. 1850 Jan. 15, Thomas Poulton Jacob Wood, d. 1851 April 15, Joseph Hughes ' Thomas Poulton, d. 1856 Nov. 11, Cthus Crew > Robt. C. Paul, d. Rd. Cooper, d« J. P. Paul, d. Rev. T. F. Wickes, d. George Paul, d. Henry White, d. Thomas White, d. Stiles Rich, d. Charles Wickes. d. John Warn, d. List 1592 Roberte Walker 1596 Edward Carter 1602 Henry Chapman OF BAHJFrs. Satncs I. 1604 John Driver 1605 Edmund Estcourte 1608 George Mayo > The present Feoflees. 300 1609 John Savage 1610 Edward Chapman 1615 Henry Majo 1616 William Tanner 1623 Robert Sperke 1625 Robert Hibbert Cfiatks I. 1629 Richard Hooper 1630 John Driver 1683 Arthur Tanner 1638 Richard Boxe 1641 William Denning CornmoniDealtfi. 1650 Obadiah Arrowamith 1654 John Undrill 1657 Obadiah Arrowsmith 1660 Obadiah Arrowemith 1662 Daniel Perkins 1 676 Moses Wickes WUaium Mh 1688 Nathaniel Body 1690 John Carpenter 1693 Robert Wright 1695 Edward Teakle, junr. 1698 William Tanner (Quttn %mt. 1705 Gilbert Gastrell ffieotge M. 1753 Henry Crowther ffieotge IIS. 1778 Robert Clark 1779 William Bennett 1787 1 William Wood, sen. 788 Robert Wight 789 William Byam 790 Thomas Wight 791 WiUiam Wood, jun. 792 Simon Rich 793 James Dalby 794 John Bowdler 795 Joseph Cooper 796 John Arundel 797 Robert Warn 798 Charles Wickes 799 Thomas Hancock 800 H. H. Sloper 801 John Paul Paul 802 R. M. Warman 803 Robert Clark Paul 804 Thomas Seymour 805 William Butt 806 WiDiam Wood, jun. (2) 807 Simon Rich 808 Robert Warn (2) 809 Charles Wickes (2) 810 John Paul Paul (2) 811 R. M. Warman (2) 812 Thomas Seymour (2) 813 Joseph Wood 814 John Wood 815 Jacob Wood 816 George Paul 817 Henry White 818 Joseph Overbury 819 J. W. Biedermann CErfCitfie lU. 1820 William Brookes 1 IVom this date the List is complete ; the names before this are correct as far as they go, hot from want of authorities it was impossible to fonn a complete list. 30i 1821 Stiles Rich 1838 Cyrus Crew 1822 John Warn 1839 John Ralph 1823 Joseph Brookes 1840 Thomas WitcbeU (2) 1824 Charles Paul 1841 Walter M. Paul (2) 1825 John Cook 1842 Joseph Wood (2) 1826 Thomas Witchell 18r43 J. B. Williams 1827 Richard Filkin 1844 William Tayler (2) 1828 Robert Bamford 1845 J. G. Goodwyn 1829 Walter M. Paul 1846 Maurice Maskelyne nStUtam W, 1847 William Brookes 1830 Joseph Wood 1848 John Cook, jun. 1831 F. B. White 1849 Edwin Cook 1832 William Tayler 1850 George Clark 1833 Benjamin Wood 1851 William Williams 1834 John Brown 1852 Isaac WitcheU 1836 John Warn 1853 Cyrus Crew (2) 1836 Thomas Poulton 1854 J. G. Goodwyn (2) C^utm UtctoTta. 1855 WiUiam Brookes (2) 1837 Joseph Hughes 1856 Edwin Cook (2) List of Schoolmastebs. 1642 Thomas Tully, afterwards Principal of S. Edmund Hall, Ozfoid. 1678 Henry Heaven, was buried 20th August. 1698 Rev. Christopher Hanley, M.A. 1703 Mr. Hall, buried June 5th. Rev. John Lewis. 1721 Rev. Heniy Wightwick, d. Nov. 22, 1763. 1764 Rev. John Richardes, afterwards Lecturer and Vicar. 1786 Robert Williams. 1789 Rev. J. Evans. 1791 Rev. Lancaster Dodgson. At the beginning of this century, the School (with the exception of Mrs. Hodge's scholars,) ceased till 16S6, from want of funds. 1836 J. W. KeiUer, the present Schodmaster. 302 APPENDIX III. INSCRIPTIONS ON THE MONUMENTS AT PRESENT (1867) EXISTING IN THE PARISH CHURCH. (South Cloister.) HicjacetFBAMCiscus Sayaob, Filios Gnaltieri Savage de Brod- way in Com. Wigorn. Armig. qai obi- it 20 die March Ano. Domini 1671. Mau ta ^ uxor ejus filia Edmon- di Estoonrt, gen., obiit 26° die August, Anno Domini 1645 J.a 1689. C.S. 1760. J.CS. 1836. M.S. Feb. 7th, 1842. J.S. 1803. C.S. 1846. Here lyeth the body of Vramqib Sataob, late of this place, gent, who departed this life the seyenteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord 1740, aged 63 years. Underneath are interred the mortal remains of Sabab, wifb of William Savage of this town, gent, who died the 19th day of July. 1767, aged 73. William Savagb died 15th Octr. 1775. aged 84. C. S. 1847. (South side of East wall, on a mar- ble slab.) M.a JoBAMXiB Sayaos, Arm. Qui e vita cessit Deoembris 19, A.D. 1772, ^tatis suie 63. Framoibcub Sataob, Gen. Obiit Oct' 17, A.D. 1769, ^t 54. R.LP. ElIZABBTHA SAYAffB Obiit Nov. 14, A.D. 1777, ^t 69. Elbabora Sataob Obiit Aug. 6, A.D. 1763, JEL 49. (South side of the Altar.) M.& JOABBIB SaTAQB, A.M. Viri, innocui, probi, pii, qui vixit annos LIX. Obut XyiL Mart MDOCCm. 303 (North wall of South Cloister.) Near this tablet Lies interred the body of JoHV Claxtoh Sayagb, B.A. Oriel ColL Oxfords eldest son of John and Rachel Savage, of this place, and of Henleaze, in this Coanty. Ho died at Oxford the 80th of Jany., 1836, Aged 23 years. ** What I do thon knowest not now, " Uut thoa Shalt know hereafter." (Sonth Cloister.) To Mabia, only daughter of John and Rachel Savage, who died at Henleaze, Februaiy 7th, 1842, aged 18 years. ** The Lord knoweth those that are His." (South side of East wall) Sacred to the memory Of Maet Dbaoon, Of Elmestree, in thif parish; Who died February S3rd, 1769, Aged 84 yean. And to the memory Of Tbomab, her father. And Mabt, her mother. And Mart, his second wife, who died August 14th, 1745, ^t. 78. Also Jamks, son of Gilbert and Anne Gastrell, who died Jan. 12th, 1749, ML 60. Also Mast, his wife, who died March 12th, 1774, JEL 77. And GiLBBBT, their son, who died July 19th, 1747, ML 24. Also Jambs Dalbt, genu, who married Jane, their daughter, and died Novr. 6th, 1773, ^t. 51. And Mart, daughter of the said James and Jane Dalby, who died Deer. 6tb, 1775, Ml 25. And Jambs, their son, who died Aug. 29, 1794, Mi. 37. Jakb Dalby, widow, died December 1 8th, l785,J9St. 65. Mabt Gastbbll, spinster, her sister, died Sept. 3rd, 1789, Ml 65. Their bodies are deposited in the North Cloister, with Abh, theur sister, who died Novr. 6th, 1801, iEt 63. Elizabbtb, daughter of Thomas Berkeley, Esq., dyed Jany. 27, 1753, Aged 81. (North side of Bast waR) Near this place lie the remains of GiLDBBT Gastbbll, gent, who died Deer. 6th, 1782, ML 70. Also Anmb, his wife, daughter of William Savage, Esq., who died July I8tb, 1695, iEt 34. (North side of the Altar.) To the memory of Josbfm WiGKBS, gent. And EuzABBTH, his wife. He died Jany. 17th ) & aged 70 She died Aug. 15th $ I aged 64 And also of their son. 304 ThOIUB CaOOMS WlCKJM, DJ). late Vicar of this pariah, who diod March 3l8t» 1786, aged 60; and is buried with his father and mother, on the North side of this Chnrch. Joseph Wickbs, gent., died August 2l8t, 1771. ^t. 60. Eleanob Wickjis, Spr., died January 13th, 1788, JFa, 49. Am Bdtt, widow, died March 19th, 1791, ^t. 49. Their bodies are deposited under a tomb in the North part of this Church yard. (North wall of South Cloister.) To the memory of Arabella Botd Dacees, wife of Captain Dacres, of the Royal Nary, and daughter of General Sir Hew Daliymple, Bart She departed this life on the 11th April, 1828, in the d6th year of her age; having ever acquitted herself of her duties to the husband, and the nine children she has left, in a manner the most exemplary. (South waD of South Cloister.) In memory of Jambs Richard Dacrbs, Esqre. Vice- Admiral of the Red Squadron, who died at Catisfield Lodge, Hants, on the 4th December, 1853» aged 64 years. AJso of his son, Jaxbs Richard Daorbs, Esqre., Commanding H.1IC. sloop Nimrod, who died at Mozambique, on the 14th February, 1848, aged 37 years. And of his youngest son. Hew Dalrtmple Dacrbs, Esqre. Lieut in H.M. 67th Begt, who died at sea, on his passage from Barbadees, llth July, 1835, aged 21 years. (Near the last door of the South Cloister, on an oval brass.) Here lyeth the body of Sarah, the wife of Cbristr.* Clarit, who departed this life ye 31 St day of January, AnnoDom. 1737, JRUit BtUC 30. (North side of East wall.) Elbakor, wife of Robert Chirk, died September 29th, 1755, aged 23 years. Esther, his second wife, died May 8th, 1794, aged 75 years. Robert Clark, gent, died January 16th, 1795, aged 62 yean. (South Cloister.) Tbohab Cripfs, Esqre., of Upton, in this parish, died Deer. 19th, 1803, aged 77. Masoaebt Cripp^ relict of the above T. Cripps, died Feby. 22nd, 1797, aged 66. Mart Cripps, 305 died Octr. 22nd, 1796, aged 68. John Cuffs, Esqre., Died Feby. 1201, 1818, aged 88. (South side of the Altar.) Sacred to the memory of four children of George & Atice White: RiGHAmD Talbots, who died Feb- ruary 13th, 1774, aged 8 months. Thouab Ck>LTHirs8i; who died June dOth, 1775, aged 4 months. AuGB Talbots, who died June 5th, 1779, aged 6 months. And Gkoaoi, who died January 28rd, 1788. aged 17 years. And also of the said Aucb, wife of the aboTe-mentioned George White, who died Deer. 6th, 1794, aged 58 years. Also Mr. GaoROB Whitb, Att. at Law, died Deer, 4th, 1807, aged 74 years. (North Cloister.) In memory of Elizabbtb Whitb, Widow, who died Deer. 6tb, 1827, aged 74. Mamma Axx Pitt, niece of the aboTe, Died Janoary 10, 1841, aged 68 years. Also EUSABBTH PlTT, Died April 24th, 1846, aged 68 years. (West walL) Ibaao Bbrkbt, Esqre., died 21st November, 1815, aged 68. Dakul Bbbbbt, Esqre., of this town, died ICarch 12th, 1821, aged77.r Martha, his wife, died Feby. 20th, 1821, aged 63. Sacred to the memory of JosBPH Otbbburt, who died 7th Oct, 1844, aged 64 years. Elizabbtb, wife of Joseph Overbury, died September 25th, 1832. aged 50 years. Harribttb Sarah Dayies, died Not. 6th, 1842, aged 52 years. (On a brass plate in the S. Cloister.) Sacred to the memory of Hbrrt Bajcford, son of Bob. and Dorothea Bamford, of Newhoose, in the parish of Stroud, who died Jan. 13. 1832,iigod 5 years. Also of Maria Bamford, their daughter, who died May 4th, 1832, aged 1 year. Also of Sdward, son of the aforesaid Robert and Dorothea Bamford, of Newhottse, Stroud; he died Aug. 13th, 1836, aged 3 years and 8 months. Also of TsABBfj.A, daughter of Robert & Dorothea Bamford, of the Lammas, Minchinhampton, who died 5th Jany., 1855, aged 26 yearn 306 In memory of Joseph Smiitb, who departed this life December 4th, 1834, aged 6S years. Also of MiAT Smith, spinster, who died August Ist, 1845, aged 79 years. (North side of East wall) Sacred to the Memory of Mart Suxmsbs, who died 21st March, 1826, aged 85. Sacred to the memory of Thoxas Fxshbr, of the Orange, in this parish, Qent, who died November 12th, 1736, aged 63 yean. And of Am, his wifSe, who died Juno 10th, 1756, aged 69 years. And of BfAKT, their daughter, who died Fsbruary 9th, 1744, aged 28 years. Their remains are deposited in the North Cloister. In memory of Mart, wife of William Fisher, who died November 28th, 1795, aged 66 years. William Fi8HiB,gent, died February 27, 1807, aged 79 years. Maby, daughter of Thomas and Ann Fisher, of the Grange, in this parish, died Feby. 9th, 1744, aged 28. Sacred to the memory of Thomas Fishbb Btam, gent., who departed this life June 16th, 1810, aged 26 years. Also An, his wife, who died Juno 12th, 1843, aged 67 years. (South Wall of South Cloister.) SiMOK Oatridob, Esq., died Febniaiy 6, 1801, aged 61 years. Mart, his wife, died December 24, 1792, aged 46 years. (South Cloister.) To the memory of Darirl Oatridob, of Doughton, in this parish, who died March 7th, 1771, aged 72 years. Also of Maroarbt, his wife, who died April dOth, 1741, aged 35 years. Mart Oatridob, wife of Simon Oatridge, gent, of Doughton, in this parish, Obiit Deer. 24(h, 1792, SiMOX OATRIDOBygent., ObiitFeby. 6th, 1801, JEL 61. 307 Masoabbt Gsjltrbll, died April Ist, 1783, agedSS. Dahixl OatbxdoMj gent, died Match IStb, 1787, aged 53. Mabt, hia relict, died Biarch 13th, 1806, aged 73. (South side of Bast wall.) Sacred to the memory of JoBR Paul, Eeqre., who died Se]>tember, 1787, aged 80. And of Sabah, his wife, who died Aagnst S8th, 1796. aged 83. Also of li^BT, his sister, Belict of John Gethin, gent., who died Aagnst 8nd, 1788, aged 72. BlOHAM> TiFPBTTS, gCnt, died February 18th, 1741, aged 41. Hbstkb, his wife, sister of John FWil, Esqre., died April 16th, 1788, aged 64. JoBiAB Paul Paih:^ Esq., died September 83rd« 1797, aged 48 years. EsTHBB, his daughter, died February 10th, 1778, aged 8 months. JoBiAB, his son. Lieutenant in the 69th Begt of FooL died in the serrice of his country, at the Helder, on the coast of Holland, September a8th, 1799, aged 80 years. Mabt, relict of Josiali Paul Poul, Esqre. died January 13th, 1814, aged S!i years. Sacred to the memory of the BcTd. Saxubl Paul Paul, late Vicar of this parish, Obt. 29th July, 1828, ML 47. *' Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, ** And thou shalt be saved." Acts, chap. 16, verse 31. Sacred to the memory of JoBK Paul Paul, Esqre., who died the 10th of June, 1828, aged 55. Also of JoHH Paul, Esqre., his eldest son, who died the 13th of Octr., 1817, aged 22. Abo of ACabt, relict of John Paul Paul, Esqre., who died the 6th day of Octr., 1843, aged 73. Alfbsd Johh Paul, Esqre., Commander R.N., sixth son of Robert Clait Phnl, Esqre. of this town, bom llth January, 1811, died 18th August, 1845. He entered the Naval Service in January, 1824; was midshipman of the Dartmouth, at Navarino, and Flag Lieutenant in the Wellesley, at the taking of Chusnn,aDd in the operations against Canton and subsequent capture of that city, in the year 1841 ; 308 for which serrioe he obtained his promotion. ThiB tablet is erected by his brothers as a token of the sincere love and afibctton which they bore him. (North side of East wall) In memory of Cbabubs William Paul, Solicitor, seTcnth son of Robert Clark Panl, Esqre., bom 13th Feby.» 1813, died 14th March, 1854. (Soath Cloister.) HARRnm Fbamptok, January 18, 1851. R.I.P. (North Cloister.) Willuk Wood died June 25th, 1799, aged 7S. Hajihab, his wife, died Hay 7th, 1787, aged 55. Sabah Wood died NoTT. 83rd, 1832, aged 72. William Wood died Nov. 2, 1822, aged 65. Elubabbtb, his wife, died Sepr. 23rd, 1827, aged 73. William Wood died Oct 2nd, 1834, aged 51. (Sonth Wall of North Cloister.) Sacred to the memory of Jacob Wood, Esqre., who departed this lifeDecr.3l8t,l849, aged 65. (South Cloister.) In memory of JoBH Lbtall, who died Deer. 17, 1830, aged 62 years. (North wall of Sonth Cloister.) In memoiy of Thomas Albtahdkb, a loTer of learning, truth, and virtue, who died December 4th, 1806, aged 68 years. And of Anv, his wife, who died Janoaiy 3rd, 1804, aged 74 years. Search the Scriptures in hope oi glory, honour, and immortality. JOBN AXUHDXLL died June 17th, 1808, aged 66 years. Sarah, his wife, died Septr. 1st, 1814, aged 80 yean. In memory of Amh Clusold, died May 8th, 1808, JEL 82. Maxt, daughter of Ann Clissold, died Oct. 11th, 1806, Mi, 49. 309 (Floor of West Cloister.) In memory of WaLTSB WiLLSHIRB PlKB, who died December, aged 35. Also of Gharlbs Pike, who died Oct 1 5th, Also of ELiacABBTH and Crahlotts, daughters of Thomas and Sarah Pike, who died in their infancy. Thomas Pikb, died Feby. 2drd, 1813, aged 63 years. Sarah, wife of Thomas Pike, died Feby. 16th, 1819, aged 63 years. (Soath side of East wall, on a marble slab.) To the memory of Waltbx Wiixshibx Pikr, Commander Boyal Navy, son of the late Thomas and Sarah Pike, of this parish. He died at Bristol, Deer. 7th, 1849, aged 64. And his remains lie Interred within this Church. Captain Pike senred as lienteoant in the Earyalns frigate, at the e?er-memorable battle of Trafalgar; and was not less respected in his profession as an ofllcer, than he was esteemed by a large circle of friends in private life as a gentleman. (West wall of the Chnrch, on a marble slab.) In a Tanlt in the Church yard lies interred the remains of Hbmhy Harybt, wife of Samuel Clay Harvey, Esqr., of Cooling, in the county of Kent, who died the 81st of November, 1789, aged 53 years. In memory of whom this monument is erected. In the same vault are interred the remains of Samubl Clat Harybt, Esqre., who died the 18th of February, 1791, aged 75 years. Also of Joseph Coopxb, brother of the said Henny Harvey. He died the 16th of Jannaiy, 1798, aged 50 years. Sacred to the memory of Mabia, the wife of Samuel Albin Saunders, formerly of Upton Orove, in this parish, Esqre., who was bom on the 11th of August, 1808. and died at Hastings, on the 28th of Kay, 1859. Also of their children, Saxitbl Allbx Saokdbbs, who was bom on the 93rd of March, 1847, and died on the 1st of November following. And of Ro6A ICaria Saundbbs, who was bom on the 97th of April, 1848, and died in London, on the 28th of April, 1850. 810 (North iide of the Cbnrchjftrd.) To the memory of Anr Brookbb, daughter of Williem ft £liua>eth Brookea, departed thit life SOth day of Novr. 1798, aged seTenteen yeara^ ten months, three weeks, and three days. To the memory of Tbos. Bbookbs, son of William and Elisabeth Brookes, of Slmestree, in this parish, who departed this life SOth Jany., 1806, aged SI years. To the memory of JoHH Brookes, son of William & Elisabeth Brookes, of Ebnestree, in this parish, died Augost Ist, 1810, aged 25 years. To the memory of Mart Bro S.C. LetaU.J. Oatridge» ainum Karr DMdd Margartl StanonCl) DMilel(8) Mmt<3) Offlilnifft Jonph FMdiJohB teah Xarj JodahP. Brther Samuel P. John P. A2fiped J. GbarleoW. Pike, W. W. Gharlea Elliabeth Pag§ 808 806 808 807 809 306 807 807 806 lb 809 Pike, Charlotte lliomas Sanh Pitt, M. A. EUsaheth flamden, Maria aA. &M. flange, Francla Maria FrandaCS) Sarah WllUam John FrandafS) EUsaheth Eleanor John (8) JohnC. Maria (i; Staath, Joeeph Manr Bwmiuew, Mary TIppetta, Richard White, Eliaa a.T. T.C. A.T. Qeorae EUzaEetti Wkkaa, Joaeph BUnbeth T. Croone Joeeph (2> Wood, WnUam aarah WnUamrS) William (9) Jaeob ^ • m 80S 803 • • 806 807 808 804 806 314 INDEX. Worcester A. Accident whilst burying a corpse in Meeting Hoose, 1728 Acres, number of, in Tetbnry parish, now and at the Conquest AdTowson, particulars respecting the . . . Age, old, remarkable instances of, from Burial Register, 1 760 Abr of Tetbury, great salubrity of . Alexander's, Thomas, Charity Alms House, the . Aluric, Lord of Telbury, temp. Edward the Confessor Antiquities discovered at Tetbuiy . Arable, proportion of, to pasture land in the parish Arbitration, deed of, itmp, Edward IV., by Bishop of Assembly Booms .... Avery's, John, Charity R Bailiff, duties of, and derivation of the name Bailiffs, list of, from 159S . . Bath Bridge, built in 1774—1776 . Bells in the Parish Church, account of Berkeleys, Lord, the, Lords of Tetbury Bisse, Philip, Bishop of Hereford, life of Bishops of Gloucester ftom 1541 . Bordarii, number of, at Tetbury, mentioned in Domesday , Social condition of, 11; Number in Gloucestershire leiiip< William L . . n. 11 Bosel, first Bishop of Worcester . . n. 7 Braose, De, the. Lords of Tetbuiy, 61 s Braose, William De, Manor of Tetbury granted him by Henry L, 16; had a fair at Tetbuiy 1287, 17; Braose, Thomas De, had a fair at Tetbury 1351 . 18 Braose and Berkeley families, pedigree shewing connection of . n. 71 Braose, De, history of the family of . .61-71 Bridge, Wiltshire, the ...... 50 Brookes, the. Lords of Elmestree .86 Brookes*, William, Charity . .173 C. Carpenter, John, Dr. Bishop of Worcester 1444—1476, account of . n. 99 Carucate, number of acres in a . .10 29 10 119 11.28 26 & n. 27 164 42 78 3 53 98 44 164 n.33 299 49 100 70 187 287 10 315 Castle, Tetbury, mentioned by Camden, 3; besieged by Robert, Earl of Gloucester, for the Empress Mand, 1113 Carta R. de Berkeley .... Chancery scheme for regulation of Tetbury charities Chancery suits respecting rebuilding of Parish Church Charities in Tetbury old Church, 96; Charity endorsed by William de Waltres, &c. Charities, account of the Tetbury Charities . Charles L visits the Town . Charles II. visits the Town on his way to Bath Charlton, hamlet of, description of, 55; Lords of the Manor, history of Charters rehiting to Tetbury, 264; of King Ethelred to Malmesbury Abbey, 264; of Reginald de S. Walerick to Eynesham Abbey, 265; of Bernard de S. Walerick to R. de Berkeley, 266; of Thomas de S. Walerick to Ejmesham Abbey, 267 ; of Edward lY. of Manor of Elmestree to Westbury College Chipping, the Street leading to, widened Chipping, the, account of . Chronological events, list of, connected with Tetbury . Churchwardens' accounts, extracts from Cistercian Order, when founded, early progress in England . Cistercian Monks, Abbey of, at Tetbury Civil Wan, Tetbury during the . Clark's, Esther, Charity ..... Coins, Roman and English, found at Tetbury Commission for admitting the Rev. D. Norris to Tetbury Vicarage Com Market, account of . Corporation, by what means it may be dissolved Cotes of Woodcote, their descent from De Braose of Tetbury D. Davies, Richard, Rev. Vicar of Tetbury, consecrates colors of Tetbury and Horsley Volunteers, 1805 . Davies, Scrope Berdmore, life of Deacons, the, of Elmestree . Deeds respecting the Alms House Description of the present state of the Town De Stonor^s, the, of Doughton Dispensary, Tetbury, the Dissenter's Chapels . Dobuni, the, ancient inhabitants of Gloucestershire Domesday Book, account of Manor of Tetbury in ■ description of various titles of Doughton, hamlet of, 53; History of Lords of the Manor Robert de Doughton .... Ducie's, the. Lords of Manor of Upton, 80; hiiU vf Charlton of, 76 PAOB \3 268 156 103 18 156 19 21 81 270 30 37 261 132 11.15 88 19 168 4 286 84 n. 17 249 32 191 85 42 35 76 46 44 2 7 n. 7 75 82 316 E. Electors for the County in the pariih of Tetbniy .50 Ebnestree, description of, 54; aoooiiut of Lords of the Manor of 84 Elton's, Charles, Charity .163 Estoonrt's, Thomas, Sir, Charity, 160} Estconrt of Esteoort^ histoiy of the finnily of, 196; William, Warden of New College 14S4, n, 197; Sir William, aoconnt of death of, a. SOI; l^jor*Oeneral James Bncknall, life of, 204; Bztracto from Begister of Shipton Moyne respecting the family of, 246; from Long Newnton Be* gisters ..••..•• 948 F. Fairs of the Town . .34 Feoflbes^ the Seven, Lords of the lianor, 33; List of, since 1688, 998 ; the present ..••.•• 311 Ffoiren, the, land oo which Tetbnry is built, ibrmeriy called . . 16 Fossils found in and about Tetbuy. 254-857 Frankpledge, Tiew of, meaning of . • • n. 17 G. Gastrell's, Gilbert, Charity, 167; Gastrell's, Ann, Charity . .170 Gastrell family, the, extracts from Parish Begister respecting the 843 Geology of Tetbnxy, notes on .... . 861 Gesta Stephani, written by Bobert de Bee • • . a. 13 Gloucester, See of, founded by Henry YIIL 1641, 7; list of Bishops of, from that date . . .887 Gore, Thomas, the antiquary, short life of • .189 Government of the town • . .32 Grange, the, account of . • .86 Grant of William de Breuse of free pasture in the North Hayes, 1291 268 H. Bide, number of acres in a . • . .10 89 195 178 218 44 169 88 Highway robbery, desperate, near Tetbury, 1 763 IGstory of fiuniUes connected with the Town Hodges, Elizabeth, Charity, 165; Trustees to, 166; augmentation of Holford of Weston Birt, account of fiunily of Hotels, principal in Tetbuxy .... Howe's, Mary, Charity ..... Huntleys, the. Lords of the Manor of Upton and Charlton • Huntley of Boxwell Court, account of family of I James n. passed through Tetbury .... Jenners, the. Lords of Manor of Ebnestree . Ind, Ambrose, old . Inquisition under statute for charitable uses, held at Tetbuiy 1586 Institute, literaiy, the • . • . • Inscriptions on Christian monuments, thoughts on ■ on monuments in the Parish Church 21 86 88 18 •48 152 302 317 Ireri, Roger, de Ludlow's, Eleanor, Charity Ludlow's, Sarah, Charity M. Magdalen Meadow spring ..... Magistrates serving on Petty Sessions at Tetbory Manors, Lords of the, histoiy of . Markets ...•..• Mary Magdalen, S.. the Parish Church dedicated to • Massie, Colonel, attacks Malmesbnry during the Civil Wars . Matilda de Long Spee, Lady of the Manor . Mercia divided into five dioceses .... Monastery, Saxon, at Tetbury, A.D. 680; Cistercian, founded ten^ Henry IIL . . . • • Monuments, remarkable, in old and present Parish Church — ^— ^ Inscriptions on all the, in Parish Church. Mops, or fairs for hiring servants Murder of a child at Tetbury by its mother, 1777 • O. Officers of Tetbury Volunteers, 1803 Oldham the poet, short life of Olney's, Lieutenant-Colonel, Charity Orade, County, The, and Political Intelligencer, 1797 Ordinances of Tetbury School, 1623. P. Parish Church, particulars respecting the old, 94; Chantries in old, 96 rebuilding o( 102; present state of, 108; monuments in Parishes in the Deanery of Stonehonse Parish Begisters, curious extracts fh>m Paul's, Sarah, Charity Pauls, the. Lords of Manor of Doughton Paul of Highgrove, account of family of Parliament, Ust of Acts of; connected with the Town Pickett's, James, Charity . Plague, the, rules for prevention of, 1666 Poor-rates, amount o^ in 1855 Population of Tetbury Ponlton's, lliamaa. Charity . Priory, the. Dr. Bamett's Paper to Boyal Society on Public Bolls, extracts fWnn, relating to Tetbury Q. Quo warranto, nature of a writ of . B. Bailway projected in 1889 . who they were and the duties assigned them FAOC 59 170 173 40 n.36 58 34 11.95 20 16 6 15,88 146 302 34 30 32 184 174 31 179 302 11.43 128 170 77 221 285 172 21 44 43,52 174 37 271 17 39 12 318 rAQ* Redchenisters, number in Gloucestershire temp, WiUiam I. . . n. 11 Begisterv, Parish, particulars respecting, 128; extracts from . .127 Re-grant of Reginald de firahns of liberties of Tetbuiy . . 269 — — John de Brause of h » . • 269 Romnej, William, Sir, benefoctions of, 159; inscription on monument of, 150; extract from will of . .279 Rttdhalls, the, celebrated bell-founders, account of . .n. 110 Rules of the Society for.rebuilding Parish Church . .105 S. Sadleir, Ralph, Sur, Lord of Elmestree tea^. Henry YIIL 85 Savage, the fiimily of, account of, 228; extracts from Parish Register respecting ....... 239 S. Saviour's Chapel of Ease, description of . . .113 Schools, the, when first founded, 177; Mrs. Hodges augmentation of them, 178; ordinances of, 1623, 179; new Schools built 1836, 181 ; enlarged 1850, 182; present state, 183; salaries of Master and Mistress, 183; lives of celebrated persons educated at . .184 Schoolmasters, list of, from 1642 ..... 301 Servi, number of in Gloucestershire temp, William I. . n. 1 1 Shipton's, Jonathan, Charity . . .163 Siward, Lord of Tetbury temp, Edward the Confessor 7 Sloper's, Biatthew, Charity . . .167 Small-pox, Tetbury visited with severe attack of, 1710 . 25 Shipton Moyne, extracts from Register of, respecting Estcourt family. 246 Springs rising in Tetbury parish . . .39 Summers's, Mary, Charity . .173 T. 175,176 Extracts from Parish Re^sters . 244 . 162 • * • . 166 . 162 79 Tabular account of Charities Talboys, the Lords of Donghton, 77 respecting family of Talboys, Richard, Charity . — ^— Thomas, Charity — WUUam, Charity Tames, the. Lords of Upton Tatfrith, first elected Bishop of Worcester . . n. 7 Tenants in capite, number of, in Gloucestershire, temp, WUliam L . n. 1 1 Tetbury: Military station in time of the Britons and Romans, 1; early history of, 2; Castle, 3; coins found at, 4 ; account of, in Domesday, 7; Castle besieged by King Stephen. 13; during Civil Wars, 19; remarkable occurrences at, 29; government of, 32; fairs at» 34; public institutions of, 44; derivation of name, 55; Lords of the Manor of, 58; account of monasteries existing at, 87; account of old Parish Church, 94; present Parish Church. 108; S. Saviour's Chapel of Ease, 113; particulars respecting advowson of, 119; extracts from Parish Register of, 127; Churchwardens' accounts of, 132; monuments in old Church of, 319 PAOI 146; Charities, account of, 156; the Schoob, 177; history of families connected with. 195; notes on geology of, 251 ; chrono- logical table of events connected with, 261 ; charters respecting, 264; extracts irom Public Bolls relating to . .271 Tetburj Volunteers, officers of, in 1803, 32; colours presented to, in 1805 ........ 32 Thirteen, the ...... 33,311 30 273 85 35 34 190 188 34 Thunder and Lightning, remarkable storm of, in Tetbury, 1789 Tokens, tradesmen's, issued at Tetbuxy 1650 — 1670 . Tookes. the. Lords of Elmestree Town Hall, the Trade, the, of Tetbniy Trapp, Joseph, Professor, short life of Tully, Thomas, short life of. Twenty-four, the, or Commonal^ . U. Union, Tetbury, the ..... Upton, hamlet of, description of, 54 ; Lords of the Manor of . Uzorum villanorum defunctomm, number of, in Gloucestershire, femp. William L V. Veizey's, John, Charity Vemey's, the. Lords of the Manor of Yillani, social condition of, temp. William L, 10; Number in Glou cestershire of ..... Vokin's, Hopeful, Charity ..... Voters for the County in Tetbuxy parish W. Walericks, S. the. Lords of Tetbury. Walerick, S. Reginald de, founder of Tetbuxy Monasteiy, 1 140 Webber's, James, Charity ..... Wells in Tetbuxy, average depth of . West, Henry, of Upton, remarkable old age of Westbuiy College, near Bristol, possessed of Elmestree, leaip. Edward XV. ..... Wiccia, Saxon kingdom of, Tetbury included in Wight, John, Bev. Vicar of Tetbury, short account of, 122; his charity Wonder, Tedbury, the Workhouse, the Worcester, the See of, founded 680 . 51 28 11.11 161 79 11 167 50 60 16 172 259 26 84 5 168 25 52 II. 6 320 DIBECnONS TO THE BINDER. Toft»eptge The former Church of B, Matjt Magdalen, Tetbniy (frontiapieoe) IVicsimile of the Order of King Charles L to spare Tetbniy dnring the Civil Wan. ...... 19 Old Market Honse ....... 3S Upton GroTe, near Tetboiy. .54 Elmestree Honse, near Tetbniy .86 Bemains of Cisterdan Monasteiy . .94 Autographs of Vicars of Tetbury since 1657 . .122 West window of Parish Chnrch and (hutrell monument 146 Estcoort Hoase» near Tetbary ..... 196 Weston Bhrt, near Te^nry . .218 Autographs of some of the Estoourt fiimily, and of Lord and Lady Berkeley, 1632. .246 BY THE SAME AUTHOR. Price Sixpence, THE SLAVERY OF SIN. AN B8SAT WHICH OBTAINED THE P0BTEU8 GOLD MEDAL AT CHRIST'S COLLEOB, CAHBRIDGB, MAT 1853. Cavbbidoe : MacMillan and Go. Price Sixpence, AN ADDRESS TO THE CHURCHMEN OF ENGLAND, ON THE INCREASE IN THE EPISCOPATE PREPARED BT THE CATHEDRAL COHH ISSION. MAT 1866. London: J. Mastebs. Price One Penny, or 7s. fid. per 100, AN ADDRESS TO CANDIDATES FOR CONFIRMATION. London: J. Mastsbs.